My U. just offered PFC Lynch a full-ride scholarship to study education here. I know she's been offered full scholarships to any West Virginia college. How many more will she get? The U offers full-ride to war hero PFC Jessica Lynch
Everyone who went to this war was brave. Query: 1) Is it necessary to distinguish the heroes from the non-heroes in this war, and if so, how do we distinguith them? 2) How was she a hero? (I will admit to not following this story closely. I know we rescued her.) 3) Do we know the whole story? Was their a private Ryan-ish ring to this? Did we rescue everyone, or did she get a special focus (woman) and we lost others trying to get her back? (I didn't hear of any casualties.) Just curious.
You should read some of the accounts of her capture. She fought with everything she had, emptied every clip, and refused to go down without a fight. Some truly dramatic stuff if you can find any accounts of it.
And to further this thought, another area I am not familiar with is what exists of a GI bill. Any of the kids who went over, assuming they have their high school diploma, should be able to get nice rides to colleges that receive government funds -- i.e. just about all of them.
I'm sure, in the great karmic landscape, she is as "deserving" of a college scholarship as anybody. Anybody who gets captured and held like that deserves -- in the grand scheme of things -- everything that's coming to her. But... What about the POW's that don't get the mediathon orgy? The ones that will have gone through MORE hell when it's all said and done? What about the cook -- the African-American single mother? The dudes they paraded on TV? I just hope, when all the diefication of PFC Lynch is over, somebody remembers the rest who didn't get rescued.
The whole story has been reported. An Iraqi civilian told US marines that there was an American woman being held at some location, and a Ranger team went in and pulled her out without suffering any casualties. They also searched the area for more POWs but found none.
The Rangers/SEALs dug up 9 bodies from the ground with their hands and returned the remains. 8 were from Lynch's unit, the other one was from somewhere else that I forget right now. Still no word on the location of the POWs, nor on how many (if any) of Lynch's wounds were inflicted after her capture.
That's just what I was thinking. I highly doubt that she'll get the same sort of treatment by the media and everyone else. I'll leave to you to conjecture about why ...
what about every other troop who has fought with everything they had? give me a break. this is rediculous. strictly PR crap.