‘I’ve been a ball of different emotions and feelings,’ says one veteran Offerings sit in front of a mural of slain Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen painted on a wall in the south side of Fort Worth, Texas. (LM Otero/AP) Lateshia Beachum
Dec. 10, 2020
Lucy Del Gaudio was delivering a virtual keynote speech from her New Jersey home Tuesday when her phone glowed with text messages about the firing of more than a dozen leaders at Fort Hood in the aftermath of several high-profile deaths and disappearances this year, including the killing of Spec. Vanessa Guillén this summer.
Across the country in California, Amazon operations manager Alisha Jimenez thanked God between work assignments when she learned 14 Army leaders, including a general, were fired or suspended for systemic leadership failures at Fort Hood.