Soldiers at the base who knew Vanessa are still grieving.
A makeshift memorial that sits right outside the barracks where she lived depicts a smiling Vanessa with superimposed angel wings and a halo, surrounded by American flags. Flowers have been placed beneath it.
“A year is not a long time. Guillen will never be forgotten on Fort Hood, obviously, and throughout the majority of the world at this point,” explained Maj. Gabriela Gabby Thompson, a public affairs officer at the Army post. “There s not a day that goes by that I don’t hear Vanessa s name.
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Soldiers at the base who knew Vanessa are still grieving.
A makeshift memorial that sits right outside the barracks where she lived depicts a smiling Vanessa with superimposed angel wings and a halo, surrounded by American flags. Flowers have been placed beneath it.
“A year is not a long time. Guillen will never be forgotten on Fort Hood, obviously, and throughout the majority of the world at this point,” explained Maj. Gabriela Gabby Thompson, a public affairs officer at the Army post. “There s not a day that goes by that I don’t hear Vanessa s name.
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“As soon as I pulled into the hotel, I start getting all these calls and. I try to ignore them like the non-important ones, and I see that Tim is calling me and I m like, something happened, she said.
“I remember, I m choked up now, said Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch, fighting back tears. “I said, well, probably not my job to call you, but I don t want to see I don t want you to hear something on the news that something s been found, I said right where they searched, and they found some human remains.”
Miller took this picture, 20 miles east of Fort Hood, where Vanessa Guillen’s remains were found burned. Immediately after, he remembers asking investigators about the suspect, a fellow soldier Aaron Robinson.