Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama paid tribute yesterday to soldiers and civilians who rushed to the aid of fallen comrades during a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, that he called “a crime against our nation.”

The president and Michelle Obama will travel to Fort Hood Nov. 10 to attend a memorial service to honor the shooting victims. Thirteen people died and 30 were wounded in the Nov. 5 rampage.

The suspect in the shootings, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, has been moved to Brooke Army Center in San Antonio, said Colonel John Rossi. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was critically wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a civilian police officer, Kimberly Munley, 35.

She was hospitalized in stable condition after suffering gunshots to the wrist and legs. Munley and Mark Todd, another civilian officer who confronted Hasan, are credited with halting the rampage.

They “will be appropriately regarded as heroes in the future,” Texas Governor Rick Perry said yesterday at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, where 10 of the most critically injured shooting victims were treated. “There’s no telling how many lives they saved because of their purposeful and selfless actions.”

Temple is about 30 miles east of Fort Hood, where the less seriously injured received treatment.

Four Patients Released

Four patients have been released from Scott & White, a hospital official said.

“Some of them are out of the woods, but some are so severe only time will tell how they will do,” said Dr. W. Roy Smythe, chairman of surgery at the medical facility. “There is a possibility that some of these patients will be physically impaired for the rest of their lives.”

The shootings occurred at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where soldiers get their teeth checked and their medical records updated before they are deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, according to military officials.

“It was in this place, on a base where our soldiers ought to feel most safe, where those brave Americans who are preparing to risk their lives in defense of our nation, lost their lives in a crime against our nation,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address yesterday.

War Training

Soldiers trained for war abroad suddenly found those skills used at home, on a military base, the president said.

“We saw soldiers and civilians alike rushing to aid fallen comrades, tearing off bullet-riddled clothes to treat the injured, using blouses as tourniquets, taking down the shooter even as they bore wounds themselves.”

Obama ordered flags at the White House and all federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff until Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. “But what we do know is that our thoughts are with every single one of the men and women who were injured at Fort Hood.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Roger Runningen in Washington at rrunningen@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: November 8, 2009 00:01 EST