By Nicholas Frank, The Rivard Report, July 17, 2020
By Sunday, San Antonio will join other cities including Austin, Houston, Galveston, and Fort Worth in honoring the memory of Vanessa Guillén in mural form. The San Antonio version, however, includes another member of the military who went missing and was later found dead, and points to a larger problem of ongoing trauma and violence at Fort Hood.
Army Spc. Guillén, who was from Houston, was murdered on base in April, allegedly by a fellow soldier she had told family, friends, and Army colleagues was sexually harassing her. Joining her on the mural wall will be the image of Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales, another soldier who went missing from Fort Hood in August 2019 and whose bones were discovered June 19. Foul play is suspected in his death.
When Air Force veteran Larissa Martinez heard what happened to Guillén, “it definitely just triggered and ignited this feeling of ‘I just want justice.’”
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