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Luna’s mother, Gloria Barrios, a Mexican immigrant who doesn’t speak English, journeyed from her home in Chicago to Texas last week, hoping that the air force, which says an investigation is ongoing, might finally be able to give her some answers.
Barrios was accompanied by two people she’d brought along to translate for her. One of them, Ann Wright, a 29-year veteran of the army and reserves who’s written on violence against women in the military, told Lydersen in July that the military is failing to adequately investigate the deaths of a number of servicewomen despite having reason to suspect they were raped and murdered. Wright wrote yesterday that “most families of military members who have been killed are at a disadvantage in dealing with the military bureaucracy.” In point of fact, air force officials offered Barrios a tour of the base but refused to admit her translators.
