Belle Vernon Soldier Talks About Fort Hood; Vets4Vets Holds Weekend Workshop

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A soldier from Belle Vernon was just minutes away from the building -- which he often visits -- where 12 people were shot and killed at the Fort Hood Army post.

Channel 4 Action News reporter Ashlie Hardway said Pvt. 1st Class Allen Canzonieri is stationed at Fort Hood and was in the building next to the one where the rampage happened on Thursday.

"It was obviously a very tense situation -- everyone scared and worried and confused and everyone kind of wondering how something like that could happen on a military post," Canzonieri told Channel 4 Action News reporter Ashlie Hardway by phone.

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"First thing I did is call my brother and make sure everything was OK," said Anthony Canzonieri, an Army veteran and current student at California University of Pennsylvania. "Then, I couldn't get a hold of him for a while, so obviously you get a little nervous."

Pvt. Canzonieri had visited what is now the crime scene just days earlier, but Fort Hood is a huge post and it turned out that he was elsewhere when Thursday's gunfire broke out.

"You still automatically think, 'Well, what if it's him?'" said Anthony Canzonieri. "Then it came out that it was at the SRC site, which is where he works, so I was a little more nervous. Then we got a hold of his wife and everything was OK."

"Everybody's really glum, gloomy, sad and still in shock of what happened," Pvt. Canzonieri told Channel 4 Action News.

Vets4Vets is having a weekend workshop

and the group encourages all veterans to attend. It will help them with emotional or psychological effects of war by open dialogue.

The event starts at 7 p.m. Friday and runs until 10 a.m. Sunday at Jumonville Camp and Conference Center, 887 Jumonville Rd., Hopwood, Pa., 15445. A new Vets4Vets group will begin meeting regularly after the workshop.

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