She really wasn’t famous, not before and actually infamous after. Her only claim to fame is that she was a female serving in the wrong place.
I heard her name just as much as I did Pat Tillman’s, if I recall. I any case neither seem to be as famous as Scotty and Marshall Dillon, at least to me.
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I have seen comments that she is angry at the Army for they way they built her up to get a female hero.
Granted, most heroes would say that, but many of the people built up as heroes did do often extraordinary things.
I don’t think she did anything extraordinary apart from being attacked and taken prisoner because their convoy took a wrong turn.
Doesn’t take anything away from her to say that, and I respect her for taking that stance herself.
#7. Though Lynch “was a female serving”, it was not the wrong place, only a wrong turn. The fact that she was “serving” and in a real war that claimed the lives of her comrades, means that she “was there” when so many others weren’t.
Both my son and son-in-law fought in Iraq, my son being one of the first Americans into that country (part of the 299th Army Engineers MRB were temporarily attached to a Kuwaiti berm destroying, trench filling engineering company on the morning of the attack on 3/20/03).
Lynch was doing her job. We thank her for that.