[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.

[Sam Cree]

It's true, information did stop flowing about her, strange, perhaps provocative, how the story died kind of suddenly.

However, whatever the true story may be, I don't mind her getting the money, heroine or not, she went through alot, and it harms no one if something nice happens to the lady.

Hope she'll get some good investment advice, if she needs it.

[Ciexyz]

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

Give her a break. The reason is: she's a woman. Because she's the first woman to suffer such extensive injuries in combat, and then to survive capture...it's news.

[#3Fan]

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.

Why do you worry about it now when the Bronze Stars have been awarded in similar fashion since Vietnam?

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.

So you think she can still serve with several broken vertebrae?

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.

She was the first POW rescued since WW2, that's what.

[Barney Gumble]

No, I agree, they make a wrong turn, she gets captured, rescued and she's the hero? What about the special ops guys that rescued her? They're the heroes. Isn't Superman the hero not Lois Lane?

How does getting rescued deem you qualified for being a hero?

[proust]

I would really like to know her whole story.

It kind of bugs me that she was rescued using tax payer's money, but in order to find out her whole story you have to buy her book! Doesn't that sound kinda sleazy?

[185JHP]

The setting that allows for this is the deterioration of the USA's level of intelligence/understanding. The filth that is most of daytime TV, and the peole that watch it, are ignorant/stupid/mindboggled enough that they don't know much about the realities of ground warfare. They don't know that there's no way this gal ran around breaking collarbones with knifehand chops and pulling grenade pins with her teeth. The terrible educational system and the dole programs that let ignorant bums live comfortably have wrought their evil.

[des]

I wonder who will buy this book.