[jaykay]

Near the end of the article, it reads:

By far the most controversial case in the current war involves Army Private Jessica Lynch and her unit, which became lost in Iraq and later surrendered after a firefight in which 11 of her comrades died.

Col. Jack Jacobs, who received the nation's highest medal, the Medal of Honor, during his Vietnam years, now an MSNBC military analyst, says the idea of giving medals to units who get lost or wind up captured is a relatively new phenomenon.

"The guys flying the EP-3 over China got medals, and so did those soldiers who drove the wrong way and wound up captured by Serbians during the Kosovo war", he says.

"It's like Jessica Lynch, which is a perfect example of the political motive, of using war as a promotion medium. Sell the idea to the public that it's heroic, then you hand out some awards, and you cheapen them by doing that."

In fact, another officer close to the Lynch case says senior Army officers were split fairly evenly over the issue of whether some in her unit should have been disciplined or even court-martialed for their conduct in captivity

What is that about? What could the POWs have done in captivity that they should be disciplined for?

[#3Fan]

Before captivity maybe, but during captivity?! Is everyone losing their minds over this incident? I've never seen such jealousy and ignorance.

[jaykay]

"Another officer close to the case." No name given, so it's one of those "anonymous sources." Maybe the statement is bunk.

[Always Right]

Funny how one unnamed source is good enough for most stories. But when one named source who is the principle of the allegation against an affair with Kerry, that is not enough for a story....

[Prodigal Son]

What could the POWs have done in captivity that they should be disciplined for?

Well, you're only supposed to give your basic information- name rank serial number. Some of the POWs were saying other things. I don't hold it against them personally.

But if you will remember, there was one soldier who only gave the required information. I think his name was Hudson if I am not mistaken. "Specialist James Hudson, US Army, (Social Security number)".

Technically, that's the way it should be done.

[wgeorge2001]

Who would want to give medals out for getting lost or not risking your life above and beyond the call of duty?
Who believes that everyone is and should be the same and by government intervention, excepting their elitist selfish selves, and has consistently lowered standards of excellence and whose agenda is pie in the sky non excellence, lest some one be offended.
Who has ruined the public school systems by lowering standards for all children and keeping those who excel back from excelling.
Who else but the new age liars and revisionist history propagandists of America; the communist liberals who vote democrat,greenie,independent and rino while the conservatives stand back and let them.
Creeping liberalism is much like creeping cancer that destroys the body and the minds of America.

[muawiyah]

There's always been an officer around to recommend punishing the enlisted personnel for being in the military.

Take this guy out and send him packing in the Canadian Arctic for a few months.