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To: Rodney King
She was given the medal precisely to put a feather in the cap of people who want non-combatant females on the front lines where they are more likely to be captured, tortured and raped.

Supposedly she tried to fight but her gun jammed. That's worth a bronze star these days?

17 posted on 07/22/2003 2:22:59 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
That's worth a bronze star these days?

I don't know if it's changed any, but it used to be in recent decades that the Bronze Star was pretty much handed out along with the Purple Heart. Now, geting one with the 'V' device, well, that's a different story...

105 posted on 07/22/2003 6:14:58 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Giving Cathryn Crawford The Bird Since 2003)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Supposedl she was knocked unconscious at the beginning of the firefight. I doubt she ever knew what happened.
129 posted on 07/22/2003 6:49:50 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
>>Supposedly she tried to fight but her gun jammed.<<

Yes, some said she was a regular Audi Murphy, but, because everyone else is dead and Jessica can't recall a thing. . .how can we say her gun jammed and that she tried to fight?

We can't.

According to recent reports, she was banged-up pretty badly by the crash and suffered injuries that incapacitated her.

>>That's worth a bronze star these days?<<

Apparently so.
183 posted on 07/22/2003 10:34:24 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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