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Maybe it's because he's making this all up, like he makes everything else up.

That’s possible.

All I know is that within a week or so of her rescue, someone that claimed to know things called up a radio station and claimed that the Army classified the details of her capture and imprisonment.

Anybody can call up and claim to be anyone and say pretty much anything. It has happened before.

Meanwhile, I thought it was interesting because my mom’s cousin was briefly captured in Burma years ago and every paper in his hometown published every detail they could get. They got pretty much everything. I thought it was strange that people were being captured and the details were classified now.

In the meantime, I read an article on FR where it was reported that she couldn’t remember any details. The article distinguished between amnesia (where you forgot memories) and whatever she supposedly has (memories never develop to be forgotten). Somebody else probably read it and can verify that.

I thought that was interesting as well. It plays into the prior claim by the caller (that she’s not going to be talking). I’ve also not read/heard anything else, which sort of implies that the Army isn’t talking either. They could be not talking for a variety of reasons. They never existed to answer my questions anyway – Hackworth’s either, for that matter.

Trust me; it’s not a big deal (to me). I’m willing to wait 2, 5, or 15 more years to see whether anything else gets reported on this incident… I don’t know about the other (armored vehicle) claims.

Somebody else probably read it and can verify that.

I read that same story and you recounted it correctly. I don't recall the story source, though.

The implication by Hackworth is that the Army has some terrible secrets to hide in the capture of the POWs and is desperate to hide them. That simply isn't plausible. Even if someone gave a bad order that caused it, it's hardly a scandal.

I think the far more likely explanation is that the Army has plenty (probably too many) psychologists advising them, and a very sheltered decompression for returned POWs is now required. As far as I know, nobody is being allowed access to these soldiers and all the stories we got were from embedded troops who accompanied their rescue.

Jessica Lynch is a special case because she's still a hospital patient, and hospitals won't say jack about patients.

She'll be a millionaire soon enough. Even if she can't remember a thing about the ordeal, she can sell the rights to Hollywood to make up whatever they want to sell to the public. But probably not until she's released from her military commitment.

"Then a retired Army officer called in. He claimed that his active-duty son told him that the Army knew everything that had happened during her capture within 48 hours of her rescue. They knew everything, and it was promptly classified. All of it.
He claimed that the Army wouldn't be talking, she wouldn't be talking, and nobody else would be talking about it either."

"within a week or so of her rescue, someone that claimed to know things called up a radio station and claimed that the Army classified the details of her capture and imprisonment."

Any idea why this story would be considered an important military secret?