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Yes it does and in my gut I had a feeling this is what she was like. I watched as the TV whores (reporters) badgered her family in West Va. and saw the caliber of people Pfc. Lynch came from and somehow knew that she was from simple and yet good stock.

If you haven't yet done so, go back now and read some of the replies to this thread, with open eyes and I think you will see the caliber of some of the people responding, that even with the honesty and straight forwardness of Miss Lynch about the incident, who still take aim at her. It isn't very flattering (to be kind).

Miss Lynch, in her own mind and words, claims not to be a hero, and yet ...? In my mind she is. Not because she accomplished great deeds on the battle field, but because she did survive. She feel to her knees and survived by the grace of God, faith in Him and her fellow countrymen. Whether she likes it or not, and for whatever reason, even if due to the ignoble acts of the media and perhaps some military PR types, she has become a symbol of what is good and right in our young people who have volunteered to serve to protect and defend "our way of life".

She has many crosses to bare both physically and psychologically. My prayer is that her faith in God and country will carry her through. She deserves much and not the scorn that has and is being heaped upon her for events in which she had no control.

Thanks for the ping.

My disgust is directed at the media and at those that continually perpetrated the Jessica Lynch myth. I have nothing against her; she seems like a decent kid. But here is the real point:

She should have been nowhere near a war zone. The Jessica Myth will be used to promote women in combat zones, which is a travesty and insult.