FORT HOOD (November 8, 2009)—In churches, synagogues and chapels throughout the Fort Hood area Sunday, worshippers prayed for the victims of Thursday’s deadly shooting and for the Army officer who’s accused of opening fire in a busy deployment-processing center, killing 12 soldiers and a civilian and wounding more than two-dozen others.

Central Christian Church near Fort Hood created a memorial in honor of the dead and wounded.

On Fort Hood, an Army chaplain asked mourners to pray for the Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist who’s believed to have been the lone gunman responsible for the deadliest shooting in history on a U.S. military installation.

Col. Frank Jackson also exhorted his congregation Sunday to draw together even if the gunman's motives may never be fully known.

He urged the congregation Sunday to "focus on things we know."

Jackson asked the approximately 120 people gathered in the post chapel to pray for the 13 dead and more than two-dozen wounded in Thursday's attack.

He also asked them to pray Hasan and his family "as they find themselves in a position that no person ever desires to be."

Three days after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center, 16 injured victims remain in hospitals, officials said Sunday.

Seven of them are at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, where two remain in intensive care.

But even as Fort Hood mourns the victims of the shooting spree, the country's largest military installation is moving forward with its usual business of soldiering.

Col. John Rossi said Sunday that Fort Hood is "continuing to prepare for the mission at hand."

The processing center where Hasan opened fire on Thursday remains a crime scene, but the activities that went on there were relocated, with the goal of reopening the center as soon as Sunday.

But the specter of the shooting that killed 13 dead and wounded dozens of others lingers on the post.

Rossi acknowledged that psychic wounds could be deep.