Ok. Is the air thin up there on your high horse?

SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. SHE DIDN'T GET PUT THROUGH ANYTHING MORE THAN ANY OTHER SOLDIER DID.

Yea, she survived. That's what she and the hundreds of others JUST LIKE HER, were trained to do. I don't have a cold heart. My father was in the Navy. So was his father. DO NOT talk to me about not knowing what it's like to loose someone in the military. over half my life was a military life. I've spent plenty of time on military bases and being around people that were through far worse than her.

So unless you can prove that she DID something other than survive, step off your high horse and realize SHE DID NOTHING.

ok, rant off. had to get it out.

 

Man, this thing is getting out of hand.

OK. I am glad she's alive. However, this media frenzy BS is getting way too annoying. Sure, she was captured. Sure she was saved. But geez. She has her movie coming out on NBC? The story all of us been wanting to know? BS.

Common now....what about the other soldiers who died for our country? What about the people who saved her? Where's their coverage? Where's their heroic story? NONE.

This is in no way her fault. It's the media's fault for exploiting people. Bastards.

 

I have a cold, Jessica Lynch. Do you feel bad for me now?

 

yea im definitely not blaming her...she even made some sort of "apology" about the type of coverage she is getting.

 

yea, im on a high horse. for what reason would i be?

i just find it total BS that u look down on her. all of u.

 

I don't look down on her, I look straight at her. We're all equal. She's not above us and we're not below her. She's not below us and we're not above her. I think this whole thing should have went on Oprah, not prime time TV. Maybe made into a Lifetime movie that only 45 year old single man hater ladies and gay men will watch while sitting on their couch, eating chocolate, and petting their 7 cats.

I do commend her for going there, though.

 

i dont think anyone is looking down on HER. its just the way the media is portraying the whole thing. now thats BS. but hey this is :usa: .

 

Nope. I am not looking down on her, but I know you weren't talking about me :fawk:

 

I think I sit somewhere between CivicChik and Clickwir. I understand (understand as in "know of" not "have experienced") the shit she had to go through, and I think it's awesome that she made it back alive, and that it was an Iraqi that helped to save her. It is important for us to see that even in as shitty of a situation as we are in, sometimes good stuff still happens.

HOWEVER

Jessica Lynch was not the only person captured and imprisoned after that attack. I firmly believe that she received the media attention that she did, because she is young, *white*, and female. A very large portion of the U.S. population will have their heartstrings *yanked* by that sort of thing, and I'm sure that the folks in charge took that into consideration. This is the first major conflict where we have seen females in combat, so this is kind of a new thing for us. Also, while what happened to her is terrible, I don't believe that a classification as "an American hero" is appropriate. She did nothing heroic, other than tough it out. I know there are plenty of people who did pretty damned heroic things who have never and will never have TV movies made about them. (A point which I will return to) Take any single soldier in a previous war who took it upon himself to throw himself on a grenade to save just a few people standing near him that would probably die later on anyway...someone who sacrificed their own life for their fellow soldiers qualifies as much more of a hero in my book. Again, all she had to do was tough it out. Hell, POW's in Vietnam had it a hell of a lot worse than her, and those guys were publicly criticized when they returned to the states for participating in a war that they OBVIOUSLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH STARTING. Now, I know there can and will be plenty of debate as to what constitutes heroic behavior, so I'm not gonna try and push that point any harder. But, prisoners are a part of war. That's how it is.

Also: The idea of a shitty TV movie about the event, and the books and speeches and stuff...makes me ill. It really does. I mean, how much more could you cheapen the event? What Hallmark did to Christmas is what the news and mass media are doing to Jessica Lynch's story. They're turning it into a marketing ploy. THEY'RE MAKING MONEY OFF OF IT. I think it's apalling. Someone might argue why this is not ok, but Saving Private Ryan is. Well, Saving Private Ryan tells the story of a whole lot of people who did a major thing to turn the tide of the war, and was directed by someone who has RESPECT for the people that were really there.
In short: I'm glad that she's ok. It sucks that things happen the way they do, but this is war, and these things DO happen. Do I think she deserves respect? Yes. Do I think she deserves the attention she's getting while some of our other soldiers aren't even getting medical coverage for chronic illness or debilitating injuries sustained while in combat? HELL NO.

Ok. I'm done now. Flame away. :busts out the Nomex:


(re: the Hallmark/Xmas comment...keep in mind that I just said that as an atheist, so I must think it's REALLY crappy)

 

Lol... I didn't think that in the time it took me to type my above post, that so many people would say the same thing. Oh well.
No originality points for me.