Jessica Lynch .........

[CO66]

I am so sick of all this Jessica Lynch garbage..... Why does she get the spot light while the others continue to fight?

WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 150+ TROOPS THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED OVER THERE, WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER TROOPS THAT DIDN'T GET CAUGHT.

I was VERY IMPRESSED with the CNN airport edition news program I was watching at LGA, they highlighted a different soldier at the end of each segment for their efforts in Iraq.

[Katamarino]

Don't be mad AT Jessica Lynch (she has a cool first name after all ), she seems just as annoyed at how much the American Government exaggerated her rescue as anyone else!

[JeffinDEN]

Didn't she sell the rights to her story?

[herpa2003]

I think she may have, Jeff. If I remember correctly, she got a $1,000,000 book deal, as well as a movie made about her.

Sunday night there was a documentary on about a PFC who may have been responsible for saving many other soldiers lives, including Jessica's. His truck's engine was destroyed next to the place where Jessica's truck (hummer) had crashed. He saw a dump truck and ran over to it, in an effort to hotwire it. He then spotted 7 Iraqis setting up a mortar position, preparing to fire on the damaged vehicles with soldiers still trapped inside. He shot all seven of them before they were surrounded and captured by other Iraqis. I think the book & movie deals should have gone to him, but that'sjust my opinion.

[DeltaASA16]

I remember, i was uproared when all the POW's got recognition and hardly no credit was given to the boys who lost their lives. And I went public with my anger... only to be stomped all over by a good friend of mine.

He reminded me that none of us really know what the POW's had to endure. I've heard first hand stories of captivity... and i'll tell you something, the touture they go through.. its brutal, cruel beyond all means, and absolutely terrible. So, to beable to smile and wave an american flag after being rescued, it only shows how much determination and pride in their country they have. If you ask me, I say we should salute everyone of the POW's with the same if not greated appreciation than the fallen.

DeltaASA16

[CheckSix]

She is a hero taking to much glory and fame. My question is what about these soldiers: http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html. To me... they are the REAL heros.

[mikecweb]

I don't care what happened or how much her story was exagerated. She went over there and fought for her country. Thats more than a vast majority of those here did.

[JeffinDEN]

Just take a few moments of your day and think about just how much the men and women in uniform have given all of us. Some have given their lives, others will. If you know someone who has or is currently serving their country, just a simple "Thank you" is more then enough.

[mason]

I don't care what happened or how much her story was exagerated. She went over there and fought for her country. Thats more than a vast majority of those here did.

So as US soldiers continue to die day in and day out... the question still remains... what the hell are you doing in Iraq anyways?

[B757300]

The U.S. government didn't hype Lynch. The media is the one who has blown the story into what it has become. If she hadn't been rescued by Special Forces but had been found like the other POW's, then she would simply be another name but nothing special.

And if we thought the story couldn't get any weirder...

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-120870c.html

[B757300]

So as US soldiers continue to die day in and day out... the question still remains... what the hell are you doing in Iraq anyways?

Your country isn't there so it really isn't any of your business why the United States is in Iraq.

[mason]

Yeah, I didn't figure you'd actually be intelligent enough to answer the question at hand.

[Katamarino]

The U.S. government didn't hype Lynch.

PALESTINE, W.Va. (AP) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch said the U.S. military was wrong to manipulate the story of her dramatic rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place.



The 20-year-old private spoke in an interview to air Tuesday that she was bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal. "They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," she said in an excerpt from the interview, posted Friday on the ABC network's Web site.


"It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about," she said.


She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. "It's wrong," she said.


The former army supply clerk suffered broken bones and other injuries when her maintenance convoy was attacked in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23. U.S. forces rescued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospital April 1.


Early reports had Lynch fighting her attackers until she ran out of ammunition and suffering knife and bullet wounds. Military officials later acknowledged that Lynch wasn't shot, but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle.


Lynch told Sawyer she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that her gun jammed during the chaos. "I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do," she said.


"I did not shoot, not a round, nothing ... I went down praying to my knees. And that's the last I remember."


Lynch said she was terrified and feared for her life during her time in the Iraqi hospital, and didn't believe she was being rescued until she was being evacuated in a U.S. helicopter. Then, Lynch said, she felt, "My God, this is real. I'm going home."


Footage of the rescue was aired repeatedly on television networks reporting how a special forces team bravely fought into and out of the hospital.


"I don't think it happened quite like that," Lynch said.


But she praised the soldiers who rescued her. "They're the ones that came in to rescue me. Those are my heroes ... I'm so thankful that they did what they did. They risked their lives. They didn't know, you know, who was in there."


On Thursday, newspaper reports revealed Lynch had been raped during her capture. The assault was revealed in Lynch's authorized biography - I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. The 207-page book will be released by publisher Alfred A. Knopf on Tuesday, Veterans Day.


Lynch told Sawyer she has no recollection of the attack. "Even just the thinking about that, that's too painful," she said.


You were saying?

[JeffinDEN]

Yeah, I didn't figure you'd actually be intelligent enough to answer the question at hand.

How about this Mason? "Kiss my Ass" Clear enough?

[mason]

You're what... 14 years old? C'mon now...