What an insult to the soldiers who rushed the hospital in the middle of a battle the press was saying they were losing and to the American people, everyone of whom would have been just as thrilled to have Shoshona home today if her circumstances had been the same.
The truth is, the rescue team didn't know the captive was blonde and blue-eyed when they went to get her and it wouldn't have mattered a bit.
There was a British columnist who claimed we never would have done the same for a black soldier or a gay soldier. What garbage.
When you are taken by the enemy, in a state where your injuries prevent your escape and you manage to stay alive in a hugely painful POW situation, then you can complain about her "doing nothing" to deserve her medal.
This thread makes me sick to my stomach.
All of the several Jessica Lynch threads have been like this today. Whiny little pissants bitching about how undeserving she is on the very day that she came home. How classy.
I have been posting here for over two years and I can hardly recall more vitriol, anger and bitterness than I have over Jessica's Bronze Star.
This was the last place I would have expected to see this.