Yeah? Did it bother you more than almost losing your life to the enemy?
The fact that it once bothered her makes me question her intelligence. Look at real heroes from other wars (i.e., Audie Murphy, Sgt. York, etc.), they were most certainly used as a war symbol to boost the morale of the troops. People underestimate how important morale is to winning a war.
Yeah? Did it bother you more than almost losing your life to the enemy?
Probably, it did.
Everyone should give her a break. There's a lot of guilt that goes along with simply surviving when many of your friends did not.
Pile on to that the magnification of her survival and rescue by the media, and all the follow-up controversy, and you get one big monkey on your back.
It is Time Magazine for crying out loud....here is the exchange:
Q. LOOKING BACK, DO YOU FEEL YOU WERE USED BY THE MILITARY TO INCREASE AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR THE WAR IN ITS EARLY STAGES?
A. I think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war. I was used as a symbol. They could show the war was going great because "we rescued this person." It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to. Through my book [I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, written by Rick Bragg], I have been able to set the record straight. I did what I could do and now let the record speak for itself.
It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to," she said.