[camle]

yeah, but what about the 11 bodies found with her? guess they ain't as photogenic.

[scouse]

Saving Pvt. Lynch a big hit in W.Va.

But will they still vote for Sen. Byrd?

[CholeraJoe]

In other news, Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying, "Oh yeah. They go in with guns blazing when it's a little white girl in danger. What about the prisoners of color?" /extreme sarcasm

[rogers21774]

This is absolutely fantastic news.

[chuknospam]

Her father said the he hopes that she continues on with her military career. That's a real American for you and that's one tough "Hillbilly" woman. God Bless her and her family!

[joesnuffy]

They went in to rescue everyone..she was the only one left alive
The real battle for Private Lynch has only just begun
What the Iraqis did to her..will probably never come out...perhaps it shouldnt...no young woman should ever have to go through what she did or what she is about to..
What ever she did to stay alive will haunt her forever...she was brutalized..tortured..beyond immagination..then shot
She needs to be in all our prayers..for the rest of her life..her fight to get beyond what happend to her through no fault of her own..with her comrades dead and she alive...
It is going to be a long struggle..
She is just a poor country girl...who sought military service as a way tp earn the opportunity to better herself...
She wanted to be an Elementary School teacher..I pray she is healed and doesnt have to live with the internal torment that is sure to come for very long..
And sees her dreams fufilled..
Women do not belong in combat...its insane to put them there

[AlwaysFree]

I hope that Army Spec. Shoshana Johnson is also found alive and well. Let's never give up hope!

Yellow ribbons everywhere - even in Fieldsboro, NJ!!!!

[flutters]

From Parkersburg, West Virginia: http://newsandsentinel.com/news/story/042202003_new03elizabeth.asp

Town of Elizabeth celebrates rescue of Lynch

By CONNIE DALE


ELIZABETH - As firetruck sirens blared and church bells rang, the residents of this small community wee dancing in the streets as they heard the news of Pfc. Jessica Lynch's rescue.

"We'll invite you to the real party; this is only the beginning," said Debbie Hennen, county assessor and leader of several vigils throughout Lynch's time missing in action in Iraq.
Hennen and hundreds of other residents left their homes and went straight to the courthouse square where most of the prayer vigils had been held.

"I was on a local ballfield when a friend called and said Jesse had been found," Hennen said. "I was screaming for joy and crying all at the same time."

Members of Elizabeth-Wirt Volunteer Fire Department manned their trucks to begin a parade throughout the town's streets.

Firefighters like Jason Donley and Daniel Smith held high American flags in front of the courthouse as they sang to the songs playing, such as "Born in the USA" and "Amazing Grace."

Pastor John Watkins of the Southern Baptist Fellowship Church led the courthouse group in prayer just as he did a week ago when Lynch was reported missing.

"We live in a community that prayed to God when she was missing and now prays and rejoices in her rescue," Watkins said. "We prayed as a community for God to watch and protect her, and I believe that God answered our prayers."

One local business, Dick's Market, was very busy with people wanting to stop by and just talk, said Doug Hill, owner.

"This news is better than we could have ever expected," he said. "This brings hope to the other families that have loved ones still missing."

Rose Ruble, an employee at the market, said, "Jesse's capture has changed many lives in this community. I believe people have come to know the Lord this week."

Hennen and friends in the community have planned many fund-raising events for the Lynch family and plan to continue those endeavors, she said.

"We have a "Dip-n-Donate" function planned for April 12, and we will still have that fund-raiser," Hennen said. "Jesse's mother called and told us her daughter always wanted to go to Hawaii, and we are going to raise enough money to send her."

Most of the community never doubted Lynch would come home.

"I took some food to the Lynch home just yesterday (Monday)," said Ellen Vloch of Elizabeth. "Every family member there told me Jesse was coming home. They were always positive, and it helped us all be positive."

[Search4Truth]

Women on the battle field serve no purpose other than to support the feminist agenda of gender equality. They are not needed to win the war and put the lives of our brave men in needless jeopardy.

So men will die just so women can prove that they are every bit a man as men are. But then, so many have already died on the alter of feminism.

[SkyPilot]

SAVING PRIVATE LYNCH would make a great movie....but alas.....

If Hollywood did make it, they would have to tie in a totally inappropriate, ficticious 3-hour "love story" into the script (a la Pearl Harbor), and it wouldn't win an Ocsar anyway because 1/2 of the voting academy would refuse to watch a "war movie"--and they would vote for "Shakespeare in Love--Part Deux."

[the_devils_advocate_666]

US town celebrates POW rescue

From the fir-lined Appalachian mountains to the hard gravel streets of Nasiriya, 19-year-old Jessica Lynch, a clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company, has made a remarkable journey.
...
When we arrived early this morning, outside her parents' white wood-slat house amidst the trees, it was festooned with yellow ribbons and besieged by reporters.

In a field opposite there was a shaggy horse, a ramshackle barn, a corrugated iron mobile home and millions of dollars of the latest satellite technology to beam this happy scene around the world.

For once, journalists weren't racing around barking into their mobile phones. There was little point because the closest signal was about 30 kilometres (20 miles) away.
...
Excerpts from BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2911785.stm

[jonalvy44]

The Ballad Of Jessica Lynch
(To the Tune of Davy Crocket)



Born on a mountain top in West Virginia
Poorest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so she knew ev'ry tree
Wrestled with her brother ever since she was only three
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, Queen of the Iraqi Campaign!




In 2002 she up and enlisted,
Joining the army is what she knows,
hoping to be a teacher someday
Didn’t take her long to teach
them Iraqis there’ll be hell to pay
So she shoulders her rifle an' off she goes!
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, the girl sure showed no fear!


Off through the desert she's adrivin' along
Makin' up yarns an' a singin' a song
Itchin' fer fightin' an' rightin' a wrong
Her convoy was ambushed, but the American fight sure is strong
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, fightin’ them off like that famed buckskin buccaneer!


Tommy Franks is our general's name,
Supplying his soldiers brought Jessica to fame
Them Iraqi varmints us volunteers'll tame
'cause we got the bombs with the sure-fire aim
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, Queen of the Iraqi Campaign!



Headed to war from the ol' home place
Because Saddam was makin’ us give chase
Fightin' an' burnin' at a devil's pace
South from the swamps of Basra she race
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, trackin’ old Saddam down!



Fought bravely and heroicly thru the second Gulf War
till the Iraqis was whipped an' peace was in store
An' while she was handlin' this risky chore
Made herself a legend for evermore
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, Queen of the Iraqi Campaign!



President Bush give his word and he give his hand
that our Iraqi friends could keep their land
An' the US took the stand
that justice was due every Iraqi band
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, Fightin’ to keep that promise dear!




Now that gal is coming home from war
She fought the fight we’d all couldn’t ignore
An American hero was just what we needed
Right up there with Davy Crockett who never heeded
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, the girl who don’t know no fear!




Her land is biggest an' her land is best
From grassy plains to the mountain crest
She’s ahead of us all meetin' the test
Followin' Davey’s legend into the west
Jessica, Jessica Lynch, Queen of the Iraqi Campaign!