{"id":27930,"date":"2011-12-15T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2011-12-15T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T12:46:33","slug":"jessica-lynch-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27930","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Lynch graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tman sends us a link about Jessica Lynch<\/a>, the Army private who was captured by Iraqi troops in the early part of the war in Iraq and rescued by US special forces operators is graduating from college this week. She has taken a lot of shit from people because of the inaccuracies of the tales told by people who weren’t Jessica Lynch.<\/p>\n

I’ve always admired her for what she endured during her captivity as well as the way she has conducted herslf after her return. For example, in the article about her, she was quick to remind us that she wasn’t the only person there that fateful day;<\/p>\n

The first woman lost was Lynch’s friend and fellow soldier, 23-year-old Army Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa of Arizona, killed in the convoy attack.<\/p>\n

“Knowing she died right beside me and that could fairly well have been me brings a whole new perspective,” Lynch said. “You’re just thankful for what you’ve been given, even if it’s not what you wanted.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A lot of people like to say that she was no hero, that she was just a pretty blonde that America could rally around for the war, but she was more than that. She was there doing the job that most Americans wouldn’t. She answered the call and didn’t try to weasel out of it like so many since have done. She’s just like many of my readers who did their duty and paid the inherent price in various ways.<\/p>\n

“The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes,” she told Congress in 2007, “and they don’t need to be told elaborate lies.”<\/p>\n

And the lies cost her. For a long time, she got hate mail. Some said she’d done nothing to deserve the attention or the title of hero. She once told Glamour magazine she felt like “the most hated person in America.”<\/p>\n

Every now and then, after a high-profile appearance, a hateful missive still arrives.<\/p>\n

“They say things like, ‘Who do you think you are? That was so eight years ago,'” Lynch said. “I just don’t respond. It just doesn’t bother me anymore. It used to, because I couldn’t understand why people were hating me. I was just a soldier like the 100,000 others over there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She didn’t ask for the attention, and I’m glad that she has been able to move on with her life and past the crap from the anti-war numbnuts types. And I wish her all the best in her endeavors. She earned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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