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Do you think she SHOULD have been shot? Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying that an American soldier who survived over a week in an Iraqi hell hole while having her arms, legs, and back broken isn't enough to merit our sympathy and admiration?

"Do you think she SHOULD have been shot? Is that what you're saying? "

I don't thing he/she has any idea what he/she's saying. On another thread there was a lot more of this nonsense. Rather than wait to see what news finally emerges about her ordeal, some folks are quick to dispute everything and to imply that PFC Lynch is less than honorable. It's a shame.

None of us knows the whole story yet, and I think we should stop speculating about all of this. People are dead; people are injured; people are still prisoners. Must we decide everything the moment we hear about it? Apparently some here feel they know the truth before they know anything much at all.

Do you think she SHOULD have been shot? Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying that an American soldier who survived over a week in an Iraqi hell hole while having her arms, legs, and back broken isn't enough to merit our sympathy and admiration?

Not at all. In fact, she deserves the admiration of us all for simply surviving what many of us would have succumbed to.

What I'm saying is that when the original report from the Washington Post came out as to how she allegedly fought off her captors, killing some, until she ran out of ammo, many were hailing her as a "hero" and ready to pin the Congressional Medal of Honor on her before the facts surfaced.

She has been painted in a light different and far more brilliant from every other soldier who has died or has been injured simply because she is a woman.