[HairOfTheDog]

Read it please.... Her rescuers are her heroes. She just isn't sure why she was put on a pedestal by the brass instead of them. This is a humble response.

I propose, when we read the book, she spends far more lines wondering and perhaps being a bit taken back at the media spectacle that surrounded her. The media won't report that part.

[independentmind]

Read it please.... Her rescuers are her heroes. She just isn't sure why she was put on a pedestal by the brass instead of them. This is a humble response.

Too many posters on this thread are not making a distinction between the brave soldiers who serve our country, and the military bureacrats who most likely pushed this story. I don't see her comments as disloyal at all.

[colorado tanker]

I hope you're right.

I just don't see any evidence "the brass" put out the wrong story about her or "put her on a pedestal." The Washington Post tried to make her into Rambette. Her fellow soldier who fought hardest was awarded the Silver Star. Her's is a story that captured the attention of the nation - it's nobody's fault. Why blame "the brass" for giving the public information the public wanted? Why isn't the public fawning over her rescuers? Because the public often overlooks soldiers who do nothing more than do their jobs damn well - like right now when the only publicity a soldier can get out of the U.S. press is from dying.