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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Sorry, I'm not buying any of this crap. First she says her rescue was hyped, and she was used by the military??? How would she know about the situation of her rescue when she was barely coherent, lying on her back? and now she thinks she was RAPED? Does Jessica all of a sudden recovered memories that were obscured by her Amnesia?, or is she just "spicing" up her book with a juicy rape charge?..the whole thing stinks!
66 posted on 11/07/2003 3:30:37 AM PST by BOOTSTICK
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To: BOOTSTICK
"and now she thinks she was RAPED?"

Actually, she was told by her doctors that there was physical evidence that she had been raped. She doesn't claim she remembers any of it. I do think there's something fishy about this whole thing, but not that part.

Qwinn
67 posted on 11/07/2003 3:42:19 AM PST by Qwinn
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To: BOOTSTICK
It's not unrealistic that Lynch would recall only the most positive moments of her time as a POW. If she did not have a strong coping mechanism in place, her mind would create a "zone" for her to retreat to, protecting her from abusive events through selective amnesia. She could retreat out of the zone in the presence of friendlies and would certainly be "aware" during her rescue.

She will, in all likelihood, remember everything eventually. The subconscious has a way of bubbling up, in dreams, in flashes of memories, in sudden spurts.

Ask anyone who has been through a severely traumatic experience, particularly if it involved another person, repeated abuse, or a weapon of some sort. You would think they could remember every detail of such a horrible event, but their memory will be very selective, such as certain sounds, turns of phrase, specific acts. This is another coping mechanism.

As to the rape, that was confirmed by the doctors, not Lynch. She has no memory of it. Again, not a surprise.

Please remember that Lynch never asked for all the hype, never asked to have false stories circulated about her, never claimed to be a hero, and would most certainly trade all this "fanfare" for the full use of her legs again.

You may think her unworthly of all the praise; that is your perogative and many would agree...but she is certainly not worthy of such scorn.

181 posted on 11/07/2003 8:38:12 PM PST by TheWriterInTexas (Under Seige - MWCF)
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