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Obamas Attend Fort Hood Memorial Services

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For the second time in five years President Barack Obama returned to Fort Hood for a memorial service.

The president and the first lady attended Wednesday's memorial in for the victims of last week's mass shooting.

Army Spc.Ivan Lopez opened fire at the Texas military base, killing three people and wounding 16 others before killing himself.

The president was scheduled to meet with relatives of the three soldiers as well as the survivors.
  
Last week's tragedy comes five years after the December 2009 Fort Hood massacre in which Army Maj. Nidal Hassan killed 13 and wounded more than 30 on the base.

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