Major Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, USA
Libardo Eduardo Caraveo was a self made man who spoke very little English when he first came to this country. He was the youngest of seven children of an impoverished family that immigrated to El Paso, Texas from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Eduardo put himself through the University of Texas at El Paso, studying at NMSU before moving on to receive a master's degree from Texas Tech University and his doctorate in Psychology from the University of Arizona. He worked as a teacher at Gadsden HS and at the Federal Bureau of Prisons and had a private practice in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Eduardo had been in the National Guard for ten years and had spent one year at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Major Caraveo was preparing for his first deployment into a combat zone with a support unit that helped soldiers deal with the stresses of war. He arrived at Fort Hood on November 4, 2009 to finish up paperwork before heading for Afghanistan. The following day he was one of 300 soldiers lined up to get shots and eye-testing at the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood when shots rang out. The soldiers were processing to either return from or about to be sent overseas. A disgruntled U.S. Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others before he was brought down. Major Caraveo is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
He was 52 years old and left behind his wife, three sons and two stepdaughters.