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Pregnant Chicago soldier among Ft. Hood victims

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Franchezka Velez, 21 had returned from a deployment in Iraq. She was to return to Chicago with the news she was pregnant. But Velez was mortally wounded in the rampage of fellow U.S. Army soldier Nidal Malik Hasan. Also among Hasan's 13 murdered victims was 21-year-old Bowlingbrook Army soldier Michael Pearson.

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