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I'll admit, I've opposed using women in the battlefield. I've always felt that women weren't capable of fighting. Jessica Lynch has proven me wrong. She is truly an American hero. Let us remember that the rescue team are all heros also. Jessica Lynch and her rescuers are Americans that we can all be proud of.

Since there are freepers on the other thread that aren't calling Jessica a hero, I'll throw my two cents in also: Even though she was in a maintenance unit, she did draw her weapon and took out a few Iraqis before taken captive. And despite the ordeal she's been through she's in good spirits now. She's a hero in my book.

I'm STILL against it. Because of the situations it brings up (a la, rape), and because of the lessening of requirements to pacify the feminists. But whether I'm for or agin' it, the policy is there.

And it's not like she's in the Rangers or something that would require physical 'grade inflation.'

All that being said, consider: here's a maintenance gal. She's not a frontline combat person, but she did the deed. Picked up her rifle and went down fighting.

Good for her. Well done! She deserves at least two medals that I can think of, and all the accolades we can shower upon her. She DIDN'T GIVE UP. She went down fighting.

And I hope there's some penalty for being shot by a woman in 'the religion of peace.' Maybe the virgins are male, or something.