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Jessica took awful beating
New York Daily News ^ | 4/05/03 | OWEN MORITZ

Posted on 04/05/2003 1:18:38 AM PST by kattracks

Pfc. Jessica Lynch was beaten more severely than first reports indicated, doctors said yesterday.

Besides two broken legs and a broken arm, the 19-year-old Army truck driver suffered fractures to her right foot, right ankle and a disk in her spine, and had a gash on her head.

Lynch underwent spinal surgery Thursday to repair the fractured disk that had been pressing painfully on a nerve, doctors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany reported yesterday.

"The prognosis for her recovery is excellent," said Col. David Rubenstein, the medical center commander.

Officials have refused to say why so many of Lynch's bones were broken, but it's likely she was tortured. An Iraqi man who told the Americans where to find her urged the troops to hurry, saying she was being tortured. He later described a scene where the helpless woman was being slapped by a black-clad member of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's thuggish Fedayeen.

Despite her ordeal, Lynch was in good spirits, asking for turkey, a pair of glasses and a newspaper from her hometown of Palestine, W.Va.

"Her emotional state is extremely good - she's jovial, she's talking with staff," Rubenstein said. He said she was particularly cheered by the pink casts she requested.

She will need "extensive rehabilitative services," he continued, but was expected to recover completely.

She's "a daughter any parent would be proud of," he added.

A friend from her unit is with her and has spoken by telephone with her family, Rubenstein said.

The military also accommodated a request from Lynch, who was being fed intravenously, for solid foods. From her list of favorites, cooks in the hospital kitchen delivered an order of turkey, apple sauce and steamed carrots.

The private has no television in her hospital room, on Rubenstein's orders. And Lynch's father back in the U.S. confirmed that doctors have asked him not to discuss her ordeal with her.

"We will answer her questions when she asks them," Rubenstein said.

Nine of 11 bodies discovered in the raid that freed Lynch are believed to be those of American soldiers. Those bodies were transported yesterday to Dover, Del.

With News Wire Services



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 507th; hospital; injuries; jessicalynch; lynch; pfclynch; pow; torture; wva
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To: patriciaruth
There's a passage I got memorized, seems appropriate for this situation:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."

Ezekiel 25:17.
21 posted on 04/05/2003 3:54:46 AM PST by johnb838 (Understand the root causes of American anger)
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To: Iwo Jima
How could they not know if she had been shot?

Remember how the doctors that worked on Reagan couldn't figure out why he looked ashen and was having trouble breathing? Took them a while to find the entrance hole in his armpit.

Now if this was a veterans' hospital, I'd say you were lucky that they knew she was female.

22 posted on 04/05/2003 3:56:56 AM PST by patriciaruth
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To: kattracks
bump
23 posted on 04/05/2003 3:57:03 AM PST by chasio649
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To: johnb838
Great one!
24 posted on 04/05/2003 3:58:16 AM PST by patriciaruth
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To: DoughtyOne
<< .... She was shot twice .... >>

No she wasn't. Reports of her having been shot and stabbed turned out to be false.

I believe she has pink plaster on her fractures and wanted specs and a hometown newspaper, though.

Best ones -- Brian
25 posted on 04/05/2003 3:58:33 AM PST by Brian Allen (I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
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To: Iwo Jima
And then again, bullet can ricochet around in the body and end up in weird places. They can even enter an artery and be carried downstream for quite a ways.

Can't MRI these people as metal in them can be lethal if magnetic resonance hits it. And CAT scanning the whole body can take time.

The hard part is figuring out if there is a news source that's trustworthy.

26 posted on 04/05/2003 4:03:37 AM PST by patriciaruth
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To: American in Israel
The torture and physical abuse of PFC Lynch is why I am opposed to having any of our female military personnel engaged upon any zone of active battle whatsoever.

We, as a civilized and enlightened society, value and recognize the courage, skill and dedication of our heroic females to their military service.

But we, as human beings who choose to kill and die in wars to protect and guarantee the future of our people - cannot deny the natural truth that women are far too valuable to waste in battle. It's a primal evolutionary mandate. Women are more important to the ongoing continuation of our species, our people, than are men. That's why men fight wars, we are interchangable parts. Every single woman is a giver of life to our next generation.

The rescue of Private Lynch was a story of great interest and joy EXACTLY because she was a young FEMALE POW. If the Seals and Rangers would have retreived Sgt. Joe Testosterone, it would never have made the news. Men save each other, die in support of each other, and press on after losing one each other in every war, throughout time. More importantly, men will not jeopardize a mission, risk their lives and those of their comrades in an effort to provide special attention or support to another man. They will do that for a woman. It's a primal, visceral reaction and that's a vulnerability in battle, and it is an invitation for an enemy to use their possession and threatened torture of a female American as a way to leverage some concession or throuth Psy-Ops corrupt the morale of the citizens back in that soldier's country.

There is no way to deny that a woman who is struggling under seige in battle will affect the behavior of the men around her in a way another man would not. We had 4 or 5 POWs paraded before the Iraqi camera that Sunday, yet the soldier that the media focused upon was the single mother, that young soldier named Shoshana. It was natural, that her imprisonment was more disturbing and offputting than the 4 young men ... all heros loved by their country and families ... being held by our brutal enemies were.

That's why men have fought the wars for the protection of their families and the future survival of their people throughout history. It's about ensuring the continuation of our species, our people, our nation. Any single woman, in that context, is irreplacable. Every single man is dispensible. That's just the way it is. Xena is a cartoon character.

27 posted on 04/05/2003 4:25:05 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
The rescue of Private Lynch was a story of great interest and joy EXACTLY because she was a young FEMALE POW. If the Seals and Rangers would have retreived Sgt. Joe Testosterone, it would never have made the news

I don't agree. A great deal of coverage was given to Scott O'Grady back when he was rescued. I suppose you'll say he got so much attention because he's telegenic.

Given the daring of the rescue mission, Joe Testosterone would have received just as much attention.

28 posted on 04/05/2003 4:58:56 AM PST by mombonn
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To: Iwo Jima
By all accounts it took several investigation by doctors to find the entry wounds and to realize that President Regan had been shot. The President was also shot with a small caliber weapon.
29 posted on 04/05/2003 5:08:58 AM PST by RAY
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
While I agree she is a hero, please don't overlook the heroes that rescued her and those who dug up our dead with their bare hands.
30 posted on 04/05/2003 5:14:50 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud to be an American Republican)
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To: Brian Allen
it was confirmed today she was INDEED shot
31 posted on 04/05/2003 5:17:13 AM PST by The Wizard (Saddamocrats are enemies of America)
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To: mombonn
The rescue of Private Lynch was a story of great interest and joy EXACTLY because she was a young FEMALE POW. If the Seals and Rangers would have retreived Sgt. Joe Testosterone, it would never have made the news

I also don't agree. If the Iraqi lawyer had secretly slipped a note to the US guys that Joe Testosterone was being held and tortured in the nassiria hospital, i think the outcome would have been exactly the same, even if the media effect less sensational.

i for one have reluctantly come to the conclusion that women in the military, and in combat, are a net plus for a number of reasons. if this raises the bar in improving the general safety of soldiers, in order to make it safer for women as a a side benefit, i am all for it.

the truth of the matter is that Jessica Lynch and her toughness has struck a blow into the fanatical mindset of the Arabs, and anyone who has the mistaken belief that America has grown soft -- and from that mistaken belief arise wars (the degenerate Clinton did much to create the belief of this softness and this in and of itself helped bring about 9/11)

32 posted on 04/05/2003 5:19:43 AM PST by chilepepper (Gnocchi Seuton!)
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To: patriciaruth
...and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble...

So, is this the Lord's way of saying "Your a$$ is grass"?

33 posted on 04/05/2003 5:28:44 AM PST by Oberon (This tagline intentionally left blank.)
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Apparantly Shoshana and Jessica were not the only females to be taken in that ambush.There was another one.They have started to release the names of those bodies found in the rescue op the other night. May God be with thier families.

(this is an excerpt from a Fox news article)

"The dead included the first American woman soldier killed in the Iraq war, Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz. Piestewa, a Hopi who was one of the few American Indian women in the military, was the mother of a 4-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl."
34 posted on 04/05/2003 5:30:14 AM PST by TracyLynn
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To: mombonn
Given the general tenor of Western Civilization's writings since the Renaissance, your argument is not supported by the facts.

Attractive, young women are given more protection than a male combatant. Sorry, but that is the was it is, has been , and will always be. Feminism must eventually meet and deal with, the fact that human behavior has some hard wired behavioral pre-dispositions

May I here draw your attention to the reality of behavioral pre-dispositions like rescuing young women capable of producing the next generation.

Treating women as equally disposable as men leads to extinction, not equality.

Your position fails based on the evolutionary value of protecting those capable of reproduction.

35 posted on 04/05/2003 5:32:58 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Good point.
36 posted on 04/05/2003 6:00:11 AM PST by octobersky
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To: TracyLynn
Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz. Piestewa, a Hopi who was one of the few American Indian women in the military, was the mother of a 4-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl."

I wonder if she was tortured also? To me it still seems better if moms were home raising their small children. They were interviewing some women soldiers at Fort Bliss ---some do seem like they'd be very tough good soldiers.

37 posted on 04/05/2003 6:16:25 AM PST by FITZ
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To: Ruth A.
Absolutely. When they call her "Jessica" it boils my blood. She is Private Lynch, soon to be Corporal Lynch, I would imagine.
38 posted on 04/05/2003 6:22:14 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to)
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To: TracyLynn
I'm curious, are you on active duty? It's none of my business really, I just wondered.
39 posted on 04/05/2003 6:26:56 AM PST by exnavy
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To: kattracks
Fox is now reporting that 'Chemical Ali' had been in the same hospital as Jessica.
40 posted on 04/05/2003 6:35:34 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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