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Special. in the personal story segment tonight on this special, the chattanooga shooting did it reopen old wounds for victims of the 2009 ft. hood attack? joining us retired staff sergeant alonzo lonsard and on the phone retired staff sergeant manning. both men shot multiple times when nadal has san killed 13 people and injured 30 others. what went through your mind when you heard about chattanooga? >> it was, oh not again, you know complete anger. and i was wondering when are we going to learn from lessons from before so we can stop this from happening again. >> so let me go to sergeant man...

Shot, but casualties wouldn't have been so bad if a few people were armed. makes no sense to not trust soldiers with weapons when you have to trust them overseas. if we can't trust a soldier with his weapon, he shouldn't be in the military. >> sergeant manning, how many people may have been saved had you had a firearm and if sergeant luns ford has his at the time? >> i would say half. hasan obviously whether you're able to shoot him right away. he would have been engaged in a fire fight with one of us rather than easily targeting people in that building that had no way of defending themselves....

Would have been shot but the casualties wouldn't have been quite so bad i think if a few people were armed. and makes no sense to not trust soldiers with their weapons in garrison when you have to trust them overseas. if we can't trust a soldier with his weapon he shouldn't be in the military. >> sergeant manning, how many people may have been saved had you had a firearm and if sergeant lunsford had his firearm with him at the time? >> i mean i would say at least half. hasan, whether you're able to shoot him right away or -- he would have been engaged in a firefight with one of us rather than ...

The building and get to safety. >> and sergeant luns ford, when you were shot, was there instinct to look for your firearm? did you reach for it? tell us about that. >> well, instantously, that's instinct to reach for a firearm which we did not have. i think to miscreate this from happening again, we need to arm military personnel in the facilities they're working in, especially in duty uniforms. so at least we'll be able to fight back against a threat presented before us. >> and sergeant manning, you were trained to use your firearm. did you look for your firearm and want to have it on you? >...

And he was out of the hospital and awaiting trial. he apologized for the ordeal. >> still on the beat, sergeant manning has a new outlook and some sage advice for his colleagues out on patrol. >> exercise extreme caution when you're in a situation like this, where you're deploying the spike strips. make every effort to get yourself some cover and do it in a safe location. >> we've seen what happens when drivers get distracted. air shows go awry and when people get reckless on the road, many of the crash victims you saw in this hour were left with only cuts and bruises. some suffered worse and ...