[Huck]

1 million? She needs a new agent.

[stevem]

Part of me hopes this story isn't right. It just seems a little unsavory.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Playboy photo spread to follow.

[ImpBill]

Good for her. About time we were privy to the reflections of a Private instead of all the Field Grades raking in the bucks.

[11th Earl of Mar]

co-written by Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg... He resigned from the [New York] Times in May after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer.

Now I'm confident that the real Jessica Lynch story will come out.

[exit82]

I would really like to know her whole story. Albeit she was a survivor of enemy action with wounds, but I'm still not sure why she is a decorated heroine.

I don't begrudge her what she has endured, I just don't know why she got medals and an early discharge for suffering less than what many WWII and Vietnam vets suffered.

There have been so many conflicting stories about what happened that day. No one has verified whether she was tortured or raped in captivity. So, why the celebrity status? Did she save others? Did she risk her life to protect others? I just don't see a factual story on what happened.

She was in a firefight. I don't know that she fired a shot.I don't know what she endured. Yet, she has been swept up in a cinderella type story about being a heroine, and I just am unable to recite the facts to back it up.

Perhaps I am alone in thinking this way.No offense intended to any vets out there. I just would like to know what really happened.

[kellynla]

I wonder how much of that million Lynch will give the family of David Tapper, one of the SEAL team members responsible for her rescue who was killed in Afghanistan. A Bronze Star and a million bucks for what? A private who got captured because of incompetence??? And how many Special Forces and Marine Corps personnel's lives were endangered rescuing her and her fellow unit members because of their screw up? Giving her a Bronze Star was laughable and an insult to all who have received the medal for their bravery in combat. She and her fellow unit members should have received a Bronze Dunce Cap!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Would any FReepers join me in signing a petition to be delivered to Lynch in Palestine, W. Virginia, that all of the profits of her book (except some expenses to cover her own costs) go to: the families of those battle slain in her Army Maintenance Division, such as trust funds or scholarships for those left behind?

In my book this young woman has the best chance now to show she is a REAL AMERICAN HERO, not greedy.

But if she just profiteers from it, selfishly, then I would say, she is no HERO in my book. I would still like to think the (former) Pvt. would take the Road Less Traveled.

[BlackbirdSST]

"Many folks have written, expressing their support for me and for the thousands of other soldiers who serve their country," Lynch said in a statement issued Tuesday by Knopf.

"I feel I owe them all this story, which will be about more than a girl going off to war and fighting alongside her fellow soldiers. It will be a story about growing up in America."

Nothing here that couldn't be settled with a one paragraph letter to the Editor! Suddenly though, she remember's! Ka'ching! Blackbird.

[joesnuffy]

If she wants to divide the procees between her and Bragg
she should be given em the go fast boys at Fort Bragg
who saved her young bacon

[Ciexyz]

If she makes some inspirational comments in her book, says she prayed to God etc., then I'll buy the book and donate it to my church library.

[spodefly]

To those making the DU-style jealousy and cynicism comments on this thread ("good thing she is a petite blond") -- get therapy ... You need it. Through no manipulation or deceit on her part, her story is worth something to book publishers ... good for her.

Meanwhile, in the 'nothing is fair in life' category, Tim and Susan Sarandon and other Hollyweird leftists handed several million over to ANSWER and the DNC. You want to bitch about something that is manipulative and damaging, bitch about that.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So she gets one million for writting a book about things she doesn't remember happening. I thought the going rate for one of those books was eight million.

[SkyPilot]

I thought she suffered from acute amnesia?

[bimbo]

I thought she couldn’t remember anything?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"I feel a kinship with Jessica and her family, and am thrilled at the prospect of bringing this story to the wider world," Bragg said in the statement issued by Knopf

Kinship? Yeah, it's called split the purse.

This doesn't sound right for some reason. What about her amnesia?

[sandydipper]

"------ going off to war and fighting along side my fellow soldiers"

Fighting?? What fighting was that??

[Pagey]

Hmmm, 275 posts and no pictures. This thread must really be about the book then....

[scabbage]

Slain Soldier's Father Criticizes Lynch's Book Deal Kiehl Says Lynch Is 'A Profiteer' http://www.ksat.com/news/2455232/detail.html

Just curious what he thinks of Hillary Clinton getting 8 mill for putting the lives of New Yorkers at risk for her own benefit (FALN terrorists) If a criminal (and she is a criminal, no if ands or buts about it) that the media bends over backwards to protect and tout as the next President despite crimes that should have put her away for the next quarter century, can make 8 million for a book, then I sure as hell got absolutely no problem with a war hero making bucks. Lets not forget Lynch is now a private citizen and she is getting that loot because of the media attention, nothing more. If the media puts the eye on you, it doesn`t matter if you were a part of the most corrupt presidential administration in this nations history or a part of a platoon that got attacked in Iraq, if everyone knows who you are, your going to get the cliched huge book deal. Fame makes money. Look at those 2 Hilton sluts

[StoneColdTaxHater]

Didn't the DOD tell us she had amnesia and might never remember the incident? If that is the case what will she write, a pamphlet? I can't see how her upbringing in east Overshoe, WV can be that exciting.