Posted on 01/19/2007 7:36:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. - Former POW Jessica Lynch became a mother on Friday, giving birth to a girl whom she named in honor of a fallen comrade.
Dakota Ann Robinson was delivered by Caesarean section at a local hospital at 5:10 p.m. The infant weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces, said Lynch's publicist, Aly Goodwin Gregg.
"She's fabulous and fat," Gregg said. "She's beautiful."
Lynch and her boyfriend, Wes Robinson, named Dakota in honor of Lynch's friend, Army Spc. Lori Piestewa of Tuba City, Ariz., who was the first woman to be killed in combat in Iraq. Piestewa's middle name was Ann, and Dakota which means friendship or ally, Gregg said.
Lynch and Piestewa served together in the 507th Maintenance Company from Fort Bliss, Texas. They were roommates there and tentmates in Iraq. Piestewa died and Lynch was captured when their unit was ambushed on March 23, 2003, near Nasiriyah.
Lynch suffered two spinal fractures, nerve damage and a shattered right arm, right foot and left leg when her Humvee crashed during the firefight.
The story of her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue made her an instant celebrity. The 23-year-old Palestine native is now a sophomore at West Virginia University-Parkersburg. Gregg said she probably will take a semester off or take online courses.
While Lynch still has health problems, Gregg said she came through the C-section "like a champ."
"Jessie's doing great, the baby did great," she said. "She's easy to love, absolutely beautiful."
Hey, all y'all, and you, too, Doc! This girl went through media hell after her return to the states. She probably needed protection from intrusive reporters wanting prurient details of what her captors did to her, etc. For all we know, her "publicist" is her brother or a family friend, someone to screen her a little. We all have "screen" names, right?
It looks like she took the step of having a press conference to avoid becoming tabloid fodder about the news of her baby. Just look at the snotty comments already on this thread, where our community is supposedly on the side of our troops.
Publicist? She probably needs a bodyguard.
She needs a husband.
I know it is not my place to judge others. It is God's place to cast judgement and to turn the hearts of those who are not following his "rule".
You're so good at interpreting passages... Show me where it tells you that a marriage has to be a formal event with a piece of paper to "seal the deal"
It may comfort your cold little heart that the People magazine article refers to the father as her "fiancé", O Self-Righteous One! This woman has been through a hellish experience. Now, she has a steady man publicized as a fiancé, not a "sleep-around", and they are dealing with the complexities of her life in the media spotlight and people's cruel judgments of her, such as your own. Maybe you would have preferred she throw an abortion on the pile?
Heh heh heh
It isn't being in favor of marriage that makes you mean spirited. It's just the pretty window dressing you hide behind when you badmouth her and call her child names.
We all wish life were perfect, but it isn't. Are you perfect? There is a father, his name is publicized, his workplace and occupation are publicized, the baby is carrying his name and People Magazine identifies him not as "a boyfriend", but as "her fiancé." Ease off the girl.
What part of her original comment did you fail to understand. She said she was twice married and WIDOWED
I don't use Bible quotes to win political debates. I responded to your quote because it needed to be clarified.
Why are you so contemptuous of me because I do believe in marriage? Obviously, it is heaven for a child to have a father who claims him and loves his mother. Children yearn for that and it is what God wants for us.
We put children in car seats for safety and we should put children in marriage for safety, too.
What Jessica and the other single moms are creating is the Islamification of American women. Muliple wives/husbands, half siblings and step siblings all running themselves into jealousy and poverty.
American women are tossing out our Judeo/Christian culture that says men and women are equal before God for a culture that says women only make babies and don't have the right to be equal partners with men in marriage.
You ease off and we will soon be living in a culture that is the mirror image of Islam.
HairOfTheDog, I think someone ought to form a committee to investigate some of the righteous FReepers on this thread who are so sure they are without sin, examining their house, finances, relationships, relatives and their past, including interviews with all the mean kids who hated them in high school, with plenty of photos, for the next five years -- just as this young veteran has gone through. We can send all our findings to People Magazine and the tabloids. Then everyone will clearly see just how righteous those righteous FReepers are.
I too want to add my best wishes and my thanks for her service rather than condemnation because she doesn't live up to some people's oh so very high standards.
There's been quite a bit of rock throwing of late on FR by people who are far from perfect themselves. I seem to remember Christ saying a little something about rock throwing and being without sin. I guess a number of people on FR have decided they're without sin so can throw verbal rocks.
Because people are willing to let this couple work out their relationship with all the complexities of complete strangers like yourself willing to brand them with a red "A" because of her extraordinary circumstances stemming from her willingness to defend your blue nose, does not mean they do not value marriage and wish the best for this couple and their child. It just means they understand the trauma she has gone through on our behalf and is continuing to go through as she tries to put her life back in order. People who never take any risks never make any mistakes. But they aren't much help to their fellow man, either.
Just as a constructive criticism... screaming at the top of your lungs doesn't make you more convincing, it makes you look completely unhinged.
There's a time and a place for everything, just as there is a punchbowl and a toilet in the house where a party is going on, and people should observe the difference. It must be great to be as morally perfect as yourself. I guess you just can't resist bragging about it by condemning someone else.
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