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In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her!

Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo	Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo

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[alameda]

Sure sounded like a plane...

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

> But from a purely Damsel-in-Distress perspective...

Would there be a movie if it had been Shoshona Johnson?
I dunno. But I think somebody hasta ask...

[swheats]

LOL that's why I needed mercy.

[Jackie-O]

I was talking with my sis-in-law today about whether PFC Lynch will recieve a combat medal seeing that she put some lead in a few of those chicken soup smelling mothers.
She said that she thought they can't give her one unless they change some rule they have about women not being eligable.
Anyone know anything about this?

[BagCamAddict]

Reunart did not shed any new light on how Lynch sustained her wounds -- whether she was injured in captivity or when the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23 when they made a wrong turn in Nasiriyah.

No, the wounds didn't happen in captivity -- they happened in the multi-vehicle pileup on the Baghdad Freeway when the convoy took a wrong turn. Puh-leeeeez. OF COURSE they happened in captivity!!

[nicmarlo]

I also have a sore throat.....tis bothering me much tonight

[prairiebreeze]

That is the coolest Morse Code site!!

heh

Prairie (bookmarked)

[pitinkie]

Not on mine.

[nicmarlo]

Most definitely there'd be as much attention had it been Shoshanna, or Lori

[TaxRelief]

EYE-gore...


+

OR...

[POGIFFMOO]

Politically speaking, I can't see how she won't get the Congressional Medal of Honor.......

[Tree of Liberty]

IF AHMED SLEPT WITH GOATS, WOULD BAGHDAD BOB DENY IT?

[Kenno]

Look at the good side: Enron is no more, so we don't have to watch their "Ask Why" ads.

[swheats]

Does he give press ? conferences daily? They used to be at 11p west coast time, haven't seen them lately.

[GreyWolf]

Sure sounded like a plane...

Tomahawk or arti. Note that the "engine" noise stopped after explosion.

[cebadams]

Thanks for the reminder --
Status of MIAs and POWs:

POWs: Patrick Miller, Joseph Hudson, Edgar Hernandez, James Riley, and Shoshana Johnson from the 507th; David Williams and Ronald Young from the Apache helicopter.

MIAs: Edward J. Anguiano, Tamario D. Burkett, Kemaphoom A. Chanawongse, Donald J. Cline, Jr. , Jonathan L. Gifford, Nolen R. Hutchings , Patrick Miller, Fernando Padilla-Ramirez

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/885522/posts?page=3088#3088
Excerpt from official transcript from CENTCOM briefing on 4/5/93: On about the 23rd of March, the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in the vicinity of An Nasiriyah. A number of the members of that maintenance company were killed, a number of captured, and a number were unaccounted for.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885559/posts
They're still holding five more POW's from the 507th Maintenance Company. They were not found with Pfc. Lynch and they were not found among the bodies buried in the shallow grave near the hospital.

United States Military Personnel Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
http://www.usvetdsp.com/pwmia_iraq.htm

[strela]

Fox could really make this entertaining if they hired a Soupy Sales double who told all the kiddies out there to "find your Daddy's wallet, remove all the pictures of dead presidents, and send them to me."

We gotta have some fun with this stuff ...

[Tree of Liberty]

There's been a bug going around the past few weeks. I'm just getting over it, myself.

[Nam Vet]

Hi there Lil Darlin'. I'd love to see that too. I expect to see the first pics of that pretty soon tonight. Looks like ya found a home at FR.

Nam Vet

[glock rocks]

good catch.