I absolutely do not thinks she's lying, as I noted in the original post "I have no doubt that this Audie Murphy performance is exactly how she remembers the ambush."
I'm a lawyer, not a military man so I don't have any first hand knowledge of combat. I do know that witnesses who are placed in an unexpected, stressful situation do not have perfect recall and will remember things that didn't happen for psychological reasons.
How many men have been convicted of rape because of the victim's absolute certainty that he was the one... only to be released when DNA establishes to a certainty that he wasn't the assailant?
Or, unfortunately more relevant to this event, how many rape victims submit to the attack with the knife to their throat and then report (and honestly remember) that they fought back as hard as they physically could?
As a legal matter, the rapist is just as guilty either way and the victim is completely without fault, but the victim will remember they fought back because its human nature to want to think one did everything they could to stop something bad.
At any rate, PFC. Lynch may have kept fighting until she ran out of ammo, I'm just saying its more likely she did not. I hope I'm wrong and I hope the Army produces evidence supporting her memory of the events.
First off- stop referring to a violent combat engagement as a performance (you're really starting to peeve the fighting man inside of me)
Second off- stop trying to diminish the conduct of a soldier wounded multiple times in a violent combat engagement by comparing this soldier's conduct to Audie Murphy's conduct, it's sarcasm in the form of an exaggeration.
Jessica Lynch paid her dues.
You said: At any rate, PFC. Lynch may have kept fighting until she ran out of ammo, I'm just saying its more likely she did not. I hope I'm wrong and I hope the Army produces evidence supporting her memory of the events.
Why is it more likely she didn't run out of ammo ? What is so hard for you to grasp about this concept ? The evidence of imminent death in this violent combat engagement is overwhelming, and multiple combat wounds inflicted upon Jessica are a fact. It would behoove oneself to unload as much ammo downrange, as one could possibly deliver, upon an enemy that is trying to kill you
Does the Air Force have to provide a witness for you to believe the pilot of a single engine fighter jet that is shot down, emptied his weapon of ammo before being captured, as he fought to the death ?
Isn't it also possible for facts to be seared into the memory (psyche) of an individual, minute detail by minute detail ?
Police officers do it all the time.