He was a boy when his mother died and was raised by her twin sister Karen and her husband Rob Nourse.   He grew up as an active member at Baker's Gap Baptist Church, where he was respected and loved.  

He worked for several years at A.C. Lumber and Truss in Mountain City, TN before meeting his wife and was known as a hard working, talented young man.

At 29, he enlisted in the Army, six months after getting married because the military seemed like the best way forward, according to his grandfather, Howard Nourse of Kentwood, Mich.   He wanted to build a career, perhaps in engineering.

He hoped to spend the months before his deployment to Afghanistan with his wife of almost two years.  She was coming to Fort Hood next week and was planning to stay there until his deployment in January. 

SPC Frederick Greene of the 16th Signal Company was a Tennessee native so quiet and laid-back that he earned the nickname "Silent Soldier" while stationed at Fort Hood, according to Army sources.

Like others in that medical line at Fort Hood last week, Frederick Greene expected to do and see many things before his time on earth was at end.   But an unprecendented act of violence on the Fort Hood military base changed that. 

"I feel robbed." said one grieving family member in a blog post today.   Those thoughts were echoed by thousands who gathered to remember and honor the thirteen people who were slain in l slain in last week's shooting at the largest Army base in the U.S., in a shooting that left 13 dead and more seriously injured.
 
The list of the fallen announced by representatives from the Army at Ft. Hood, Texas on Saturday, 07 Nov 2009 included:
 
LTC Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, MD
MAJ Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, VA
CPT John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, CA
CPT Russell Seager, 41, Racine, WI
SSG Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, IN
SGT Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, WI
SPC Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, OK
SPC Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, TN
PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, UT
PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, IL
PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, MN
PVT Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, IL
CWO (Ret) Michael G. Cahill, USNG Veteran, Cameron, TX

These soldiers were killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Army base.

Today, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of these 13 people, honoring their memories even as he denounced the "twisted logic" that led to their deaths.

"No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor," Obama told the crowd on a steamy Texas afternoon. "And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice -- in this world and the next."

He did not name Maj. Nidal Hasan, the military psychiatrist accused of the killings last Thursday. Soldiers reported that Hasan, who is Muslim, shouted the Arabic phrase for “God is Great” before opening fire.

As for the victims and the soldiers who rushed to help them, Obama said, "We need not look to the past for greatness, because it is before our very eyes." He spoke at a memorial service before a crowd estimated at 15,000 on this enormous Army post.

"This is a time of war, and yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great state," Obama said.

Thousands of people, many of them soldiers dressed in camouflage, gathered to pay respects and hear the president. The shooting left 12 soldiers and 1 civilian dead, injured 29 others and left a nation stunned and searching for answers.

One soldier who attended the memorial said the mood at Fort Hood was turning from sadness to anger as soldiers learned more about Hasan's background, which suggests that investigators and superiors may have been aware of a risk.

"A lot of folks are angry because they feel this could have been prevented," said Spc. Brian Hill, a 25-year-old soldier from Nashville,  TN who was injured in Iraq and walks with a cane. "Somebody should have been paying attention."

The Knoxville News Sentinal quoted Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander as saying “It is a tragedy any time one of our young men or women loses their lives fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan or some other part of the world, but to think that they could be killed here in the United States is just beyond belief.”