"People were crawling around that had got hit and you could see that they were bleeding, so you realized that it was real. But I still couldn't see him," she said. "So, I didn't know which way I should go or which way I should crawl."

Ferguson, who is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., was at Fort Hood preparing to be deployed to Iraq.

She was in the readiness center waiting to get her shots.

One week later, she was home in Clear Lake with her fiancé and her family, nursing the wounds from being shot three times.

"I got shot in the left arm and it shattered my humerus and went into my chest and collapsed my lung," Ferguson said.

The 21-year-old graduated from Clear Lake High School in 2006 and has lived in Clear Lake since she was 5 years old.

Ferguson's mind is now on moving forward and to marrying her fiancé, Randy Roscoe. He's also an Army specialist and was in Iraq when the shooting happened.

"I was scared for her and I just felt helpless because I was trapped in Iraq and I couldn't be here to help her and take care of her," Roscoe said.

Investigators announced Thursday that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of the shootings, would be charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.

Still, Ferguson said she harbored no anger towards Hasan.

"I'm not angry, but I know a lot of people are," she said. "I'm just glad that I'm alive."

Ferguson said instead of being deployed to Iraq, she will take time to heal with her family over the holidays. After that, she said she would decide how to move forward with her military career.

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