Good post. How does one become a symbol? She was chosen. Consider the possibility that it was choreographed by the agenda driven PC bunch bent willie left behind in the DoD, rooted on by the airhead media cheerleaders(or maybe vice versa). Why should a teenaged girl in the military be placed on such a high pedestal? She did nothing exemplary as far as I know.
Jessica Lynch likely endured inhumane treatment at the hands of her captors and I sympathize, but I suspect so have many others....mostly young men. I wonder how they feel about this circus? A good morale booster for our fighting men? I don't think so. It's pure PC crap any way you cut it.
Leave the women at home to keep the fires burning.
FGS
She's known because she was a lone rescuee for ten days. We celebrate the lives that are saved, like it or not. She's known the same way Anderson, O'grady, and Zaun are known.