Nice pick your brain kind of article with lots of info I hadn't really heard before. Plus she is looking like a little hottie...
Posted on 09/11/2006 10:48:52 AM PDT by steel_resolve
Running is something I want to get back to. I last went running in Kuwait, on the sand. Before we went to Iraq.
I wanted to think it's like riding a bicycle, you don't forget. I've tried on a treadmill, but it's not pretty. It's getting back into learning how to do it.
What were the odds? For me to be one of a few POWs out of all the soldiers deployed? It was a definite shock.
There have been times when my physical abilities and mental abilities have been tested. But that also keeps me going.
My brother and I signed up on the same day in July 2001. When I left for basic on Sept. 19, it was a week later, and I was kind of scared. I was afraid they would ship us straight from basic to the war, but I didn't know anything then.
Most of the earlier stories about what happened to me were untrue. I think people wanted the story to turn out with that whole Rambo-style shooting, the things that didn't really happen. They wanted that fairy tale story.
(Excerpt) Read more at postgazette.com ...
God bless Jessica Lynch and all like her who endure hardship on our behalf.
I heard she became a multimillionairre after she became the most famous wounded/captured person in the Irag War II. Book and movie rights deals, product endorcements, etc. Is that correct?
It's the pregnancy.
yeah, I think I heard that also.
...with the boyfriend...not exactly my poster girl for God and country.
Colonel, USAFR
She sounds like the wave of liberal GI Jane mentality stuff just kind of swept her along. The Libs wanted her to be a Ranbo, but she was just a soldier doing her job.
I always felt a bit of extra sympathy for her...I got the impression she was not able to heal and come to terms with what happened to her in peace.
If she is a millionare...good for her. I wish all of our military people could be millionares. They certainly put a priceless chip on the gambling table...their lives.
Jessica Lynch is a disgrace.
She comes home to a multi-million dollar book/movie deal, and for what? Never firing a shot because she failed to clean her weapon, and cuddling up in the fetal position in her vehicle?
How many lives did she cost because she never returned fire? The convoy was one man/rifle short because of her irresponsibility and abject disregard for maintaining the bare minimum of her equipment.
How many people died because of this?
How many have done and accomplished so much more and never returned to lucrative business deals, talk show appearances, etc?
Hell, the Army now has the new "Soldier's Creed" which is basically the anti-Jessica Lynch creed
"I will never accept defeat.I will never quit....I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I will always maintain my arms, my equipment, and myself."
You know, pretty much everything she failed to do.
Talk to anyone in a real unit, and they will tell you everything I just said and more.
Absolute disgrace.
I haven't seen her in any product endorsements, her book deal and TV movie deal probably made her a few hundred grand at most, not multiple millions.
Well, at least the kid will have a stable home life. How noble.
I don't know which active duty soldiers you have been talking to... none of those around me feel the same way, nor do I.
They there armchair, thanks for your opinion. I'll file it in the appropriate place.
They there = Hey there.
Armchair? I, unlike you, am in the military.
My, how sanctimonious.
After taxes and agents' and lawyers' fees, depending on various factors, that's probably 400K or less net.
I'm sure she made other money on interviews or speaking engagements, but I doubt it all adds up to even a million.
So he is refusing to marry her, I guess.
Yeah, I have little respect for those people who get others killed due to their own negligence and then monetarily rewarded when they come home.
Plus, what about Lashonda Williams? Why wasn't there a media hug-fest over her being a 'hero'? Why didn't she get a Lifetime movie and a Simon and Schuster book deal?
So is she anything less than Lynch?
Yes, it is unfortunate that Lynch was taken prisoner...but when you don't fire a shot because your weapon is too dirty to fire, because you failed to clean it and/or even know how to operate, even though you are in COMBAT...
Wow - loss of words here...
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