She was a twenty year old Latina U.S. Army enlisted soldier, it takes a reserve of steel in her soul for a woman to enlist, to sign on the line, then to toe the line, God bestowed gifts to Vanessa, one, a heart of a lioness, another, a bonita presence with eyes of earth~brown. She kept her promise to serve the U.S., and rose to fulfill her duty, she was murdered by a fellow soldier in an armory at Fort Hood U.S.