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Also, you said that her back was broken at the wreck, but Private Lynch admits that she tried to fire her M-16 but it jammed.

The current official report says nothing about trying to fire her rifle. I don't know when the report was written, but I haven't see an amended report. The current report was released July 7.

I understand and I agree. Private Lynch maintains that she tried to fire her weapon, but it jammed. I don't know if that's the case. The official report, as you point out, doesn't indicate anything like that. Who knows? She says that she tried to fire, fine. If she was scared to death and surrendered, that would be plausible too. However, that is all speculation. The real issue is Pvt. Lynch asserting that she has "been used" by the Pentagon.

The reports that have been made by the Army haven't glorified her involvement or portrayed her in some light that could be considered propoganda (as Pvt. Lynch asserted in the Diane Sawyer interview, which was the spark that lit this thread's fire).

As I have pointed out on this thread several times, when initially asked --during the whole "fog of war"-- the Army briefer (Gen. Brooks) informed the reporters that the Army expects all soldiers to fight and that it wouldn't be uncommon for a soldier to fire his weapon in the face of an aggressor (duh! but, to the spineless reporters that went to Columbia witha silver spoon in their mouth, this is actually news). He added, however, that they still were trying to find the details out.

The reporters (not the Army or the Pentagon) took the hardly known facts and extrapolated it into this "Saving Private Lynch"/"Rambo" tale.

The fact is that Pvt. Lynch suffered a terrible ordeal. We all wish that she hadn't gone through it. We all wish her as full a recovery (physical and mental) as possible. However, her comments were misdirected at the Pentagon.