[Unknown Target]

Now, I'm all for America, I'm a real patriot (not one of those "patriots" that accept everything the GWB says as truth + hates the French for no apparant reason). But I have no freaking CLUE why Jessica Lynch is considered a hero. She was an engineer, took a wrong turn, got shot and was "liberated" from an Iraqi hospital, while still in really good condition.


Now, why does that make her more heroic thaaan, say, a U.S. soldier that died fighting to protect his comrades???

[kode]

well, uh, cuz "heroic" rescues like that are good for morale, obviously.

[an0n]

No, it makes her what the media call a "Ratings Grabber".

[Unknown Target]

lol.

I usually don't agree with an0n, but in this case, he's right, I think

[Stryke 9]

Here, people get their heroes where they can find them (chalk it up to too many bad movies and the subsequent melodrama starvation people with no lives get in normal life), and people seem to generally have more sympathies for the damsel in distress because they're fuckin' morons. Hell, look at those assholes who got stuck down a mine shaft last year- not a nod to the people who located them, got a heavy drill, and saved their lives, but these guys whose only accomplishment was basically to not drown get handed the keys to the city- and then they promptly start suing the holy living fuck out of each other over movie rights.

[Falcon X]

She probably got all the publicity because I believe she was the first female POW for America.

[Grey Wolf]

I sincerely doubt that she is the first female American POW. Actually, according to this site, 80 US nurses were POWs during WW2.

[Blue Lion]

Well heroes can't be bothered with fact

[redmenace]

It was a PR stunt. but there were not of people captured during the war(in march, I consider the guerilla activities as sereptitous and not war, we experienced the same thing WWII Germany especially berlin). She was also a woman in combat that was captured and it is one thing for a man to be captured but another(especially from a mans perspective) for a woman to be captured. But, unfortunatly the philosophy of never leaving a man behind is often not honored and dismissed as long as it is politically expedient. Cough cough Vietnam MIAs cough cough.

[Knight Templar]

I hate when you guys bad mouth True American Heroes. It takes real guts to drive into the heart of an Iraqi ambush, take them by storm, and live to tell about it. Not to mention doing all that with only an engineering team. And then when she was wounded and taken capitive, not only did she live to tell about it, but she helped the american commandos... liberate yet another Iraqi Hospital!



what? I just woke up. bite me. =P

[Taristin]

Let her have her moment... Who does it harm?

[Stryke 9]

My brain. I don't take naturally to misanthropy, which makes me hate humanity all the worse for forcing me to despise it.

[aldo_14]

Apparently, the subsequent military investigation concluded that her injuries were from driving her humvee into the one in front when her engineering team blundered into an ambush.......

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Apparently, the subsequent military investigation concluded that her injuries were from driving her humvee into the one in front when her engineering team blundered into an ambush.......

Indeed, but I have to admit it was a good PR stunt at the time, it caught me off-guard and for a while I genuinely felt sorry for her being beaten/whatever-else-the-media-said. Why was I so willing to react to it? Same reason u all were - it was a woman. In the light of day now, I'm rather pissed that this was presented in such a light.

[redmenace]

but aside from everything else I wanna say the army core of engineers kick ass

[mikhael]

I think some people need to go watch "Wag the Dog".

JL was trumped up to be a hero becuase it gave the masses someone to rally for and give their support to. Since most people in this country don't understand that there can be a difference between 'support the troops' and 'support the war' and 'support the ****wit that got this girl over there in the first place', its a perfectly good political strategy.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by vyper
Why was I so willing to react to it? Same reason u all were - it was a woman.

who cares if it was a chick? Why does her morphology come in to play here?

[vyper]

Originally posted by mikhael


who cares if it was a chick? Why does her morphology come in to play here?

Because its instinct in men to protect women.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by vyper



Because its instinct in men to protect women.

Even if only in hope of a potential shag.........

[mikhael]

Originally posted by vyper Because its instinct in men to protect women.

It is? I admit to wanting to protect my wife, but in a danger situation, any other woman is just a hairless monkey as far as I'm concerned.

Did I miss a memo?