[answerguy]

Isn't it time for the media to focus on other soldiers that have been wounded in Iraq? Granted she went through alot but every soldier who 'took one for the team' deserves to have their story told too.

[Standing Wolf]

Truly intelligent people rarely become journalists: low pay, frequently lousy working conditions, endless deadlines, lots of office politics, and no very great opportunities for promotion.

[Bonker]

In any war, Americans need a tangible living hero to latch onto. Sgt. York, Audie Murphy, George Washington, Scott O'Grady, etc...

Jessica Lynch is who the media and public have chosen got Gulf War2. Peronally I think we've made an excellent choice. SHe may not look like GI Joe to you, but that doesn't make her any less of a hero.

I bet she actually doen't like her hero status. Most never do get used to it and with we would remember our fallen heroes instead.

So for now, just think of her as America's head cheerleader. Lord knows we needed one! :)

[cool45auto]

I'm afraid this story is going to be around for a long, long time.

[Bonker]

Actually we haven't heard much of her story at all! I can't wait for more!

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

I just hope that they leave the poor woman alone to heal and resume a normal life sometime. So far, it seems like the military is keeping the press away successfully, but it can't last forever.

- pdmoderator

[ahadams]

pdmoderator - true, but since she *is* from West Virginia I doubt that most of the leftist media will want to spend any time there, after all - people there own GUNS!:what: and a great many of them are also conservative Christians! :what:

somehow I doubt we'll see too much more coverage once she leaves the DC metro environs.

[firestar]

I agree. I am so sick of that story. Talk about a made for T.V. movie waiting to happen. I am glad she is safe but come on! What about the other guys that didn't make it?

[Zander]

I bet she actually doen't like her hero status.No doubt...unless the Iraqi thugs who abused her managed a sex-change operation, too.

She may indeed be a heroine...time and detail will tell...but she isn't going to be 'hero', media stylebooks to the contrary.

[Bonker]

"She may indeed be a heroine"

One two three four, I declare a grammar war! :)

[benewton]

The people on the Boston talk stations are talking her up for a CMH.

I, personally, think that this horse has been ridden far enough without some real detailed information.

I'm afraid, after my service time, that I distrust just about everything the media, with service support, publishes.

[Viking6]

I would like to see the entire report on what haapened to that group of soldiers. But if what they say is true about her fighting til she ran out of ammo, then that fits the bill for heroics for me. As they say, don't hate the player, hate the game. Again from what I've heard and if it stays true, I consider her a warrior.

[riverdog]

We don't have the full story, but extrapolating what may have occurred, she may be due a Bronze Star along with her Purple Heart and POW medal -- MoH? Nuh Uhh, I've seen nothing that approaches that level of valor.

[Waitone]

Pvt. Lynch will be used by multitudes of organizations who have social engineering agenda.

Reports of what happened are still confused. Right out of the box unsubstantiated stories were printed which were later retracted then reappear.

To this day not even the doctors (if you believe the stories) can't determine conclusively if she was shot and how many times.

Not one word has appeared in print or electrons how her ankles were broken and how her back was injured. Not one word yet on her treatment in captivity.

You can count on groups pushing her story as far as it will go. I'm not surprised Boston radio stations are yuking up CMH award. It may be justified, or it may not be justified. Regardless of what happens we need to know the whole story of what happened to her and not have the inconvenient details covered up like was done during the last Gulf war.

This brave American should be recognized for her actual service and not turned into an organ grinder monkey for various social engineering outfits. No one deserves that treatment.

[Ala Dan]

Yep, its time to move on as we have celebrated her
safe return to U.S. soil. We must remember, there
are other "Iraqi Freedom" P.O.W.'s that would like
to be remembered as well! Not to mention, Capt.
Scott Spechiter (? spell check off); or the nearly
2,500 other names that vanished (and remain
unaccounted for) during the Viet-Nam war.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A, Life Member

[QKRTHNU]

Now that other POWs have been rescued you'll get your wish.

[ahenry]

Is it just me or does anybody else think her injuries are reminiscent of what would happen if the vehicle she was traveling in was suddenly and violently “blown” upwards? Broken spine, legs, and ankles could be from many things but when I think method of injury, that’s what comes to my mind.


Of course, regardless of the how, the fact remains that she was a POW for some time and was injured prior to her captivity or as a result of being a POW. Either way she deserves our respect for what she did regardless of how she was injured.

[El Tejon]

ahenry, I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like the type of injuries an Indy car driver would receive.

[VaughnT]

The CMH? No. She did a lot, but what she did was for survival, not something akin to the actions of Audie Murphy or York. To be listed amongst such as they, she would have to have done far more than she did. To accept the CMH for her actions would mean going through life knowing she accepted the highest of honors for reasons other than deserving them. Has our blood really become so thin?

Honor her as we honor the other POW's now released. Award them for their actions and their suffering. But let us not forget what it really takes for the Medal of Honor to earned.

[jmbg29]

I'm not surprised Boston radio stations are yuking up CMH award.Nothing that the residents of the sphincter of the People's Communewealth of Massachewsh*ts come up with ever surprises me either.

Thank you God, for delivering me, your humble but unworthy servant, from that hopeless den of iniquity and stupidity, the PCM.

AMEN!

Those people ah retahdid.:D

[10-Ring]

I glad she's come home receiving the medical attention she needs, I'm also glad the other POW's were recently found and are on their way home.