Some of her wounds due to torture, will never heal. Her bravery was overwhelming in the Iraqi hospital.
I agree that women should not be in combat environments, but there has always been women in military support services and that will likely continue.
Notice that Miss Lynch was treated far more brutally than the male POWs. None of them spent 4 months in the hospital and are still on crutches. Also notice that the other female POW, Shoshanna Johnson was also more severly injured than the male POWs. If you beleive the cover story that she was shot through both ankles with a single bullet, I'd like to sell you some prime swampland. That story is as big a load as the story that Lynch's injuries were sustained in the wreck of her humvee. That lie was debunked in a July article in Newsweek by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Rod Norland, who reported that according to American intelligence sources, the leader of the SEAL team that rescued Lynch and several Iraqi eyewitnesses, Lynch was only slightly injured and able to stand when she was captured.
Even if we want women in support units very close to hostile areas, we need to face the fact that they are in store for a horrific experience if taken captive by Arabs. My cousin, a 19 year old woman who recently joined the Army, just completed SERE training, (Survival, Evasion Resistance and Escape) and was breifed on what actually happened to Lynch and Johnson. Beleive me, it would give you nightmares. Even the male POWs, who were not as badly abused as the females, suffered a monstrous ordeal.