[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

The POWs who did not survive should be considered heroes as much as Pvt. Lynch. Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky.

[Guenevere]

#58...Look you, anyone who has the strength of will to survive days & days of starvation, fear and torture is a very special person!

This does not negate the honor & respect & homage due to those POW's who did not make it out alive!!

[GOP_Proud]

< The POWs who did not survive should be considered heroes as much as Pvt. Lynch. Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky. >

No one is trying to or going to forget her fallen soldiers nor other POWs. They are all heroes. A story like Jessica's is uplifting and it's perfectly natural to latch on to it.

I don't agree that her survival "means she was lucky". It just means that she managed somehow to make it. I think it's very early to make rash statements about "luck". I'm not sure how I would fair with bullet wounds and broken bones and a fractured back. Doesn't sound too lucky to me.

[solzhenitsyn]

Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky.

She's a hero to me. Not for being rescued, but for what she did before she was rescued.

[GOP_Proud]

< The POWs who did not survive should be considered heroes as much as Pvt. Lynch. Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky. >

Every person who serves in any capacity in the military is an automatic hero to me. They are always there to protect me.

[archy]

The POWs who did not survive should be considered heroes as much as Pvt. Lynch. Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky.

8 Bodies Found in Raid Were U.S. Soldiers

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight of the bodies found during the rescue of an American POW in Iraq this week were members of her ambushed Army maintenance unit, the Pentagon announced Saturday.

The eight soldiers were with Pfc. Jessica Lynch when their unit, the 507th Maintenance Company, was ambushed near Nasiriyah on March 23.

The U.S. commandos who freed Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah this week also found 11 bodies, nine of which were believed to be those of Americans. The nine bodies had been returned to a forensics center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for identification and investigation of how they died.

The Pentagon issued a statement early Saturday morning saying the status of the eight soldiers had been changed from missing to killed.

The soldiers were:

Sgt. George E. Buggs, 31, of Barnwell, S.C.

Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, of Cleveland.

Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, of El Paso, Texas.

Spc. James M. Kiehl, 22, of Comfort, Texas.

Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, of Amarillo, Texas.

Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz.

Pvt. Brandon U. Sloan, 19, of Cleveland.

Sgt. Donald R. Walters, 33, of Kansas City, Mo.

All were members of the 507th Maintenance, an army unit based at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Five members of the unit remain listed as prisoners of war. Shortly after the unit's ambush, the five were shown on Iraqi state-run television being questioned by their captors.

Iraqi television also showed footage of at least five bodies. After viewing that footage, Pentagon officials accused Iraq of executing prisoners of war.

There was no immediate word from the Pentagon Saturday on whether the soldiers were killed in the ambush or afterward.

[BriarBey]

The POWs who did not survive should be considered heroes as much as Pvt. Lynch. Her survival does not make her a hero, for the most part it means she was lucky.


At a time like this, people need hope to grab ahold of. There is no hope in watching them bring back our boys dead. Its over. We will always love them and appreciate them and thank God for them, but they are gone. Jessica is not!! She is one the enemy did not get to kill and that point we celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quit looking for things to pick about and celebrate with us. Sounds to me like your glass is usually 1/2 empty.