Army Decorates Jessica Lynch's Rescuers

[Judi Lynn]

Army Decorates Jessica Lynch's Rescuers
Saturday, January 28, 2006
(01-28) 13:42 PST Savannah, Ga. (AP) --

The Army unit that helped rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital during a nighttime raid has been given an award for valor.

The 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, based in Savannah, received the Valorous Unit Award during a ceremony Friday. It is the Army's third-highest unit citation.
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A convoy from Lynch's company took a wrong turn and was attacked in Nasiriyah in March 2003. Eleven U.S. soldiers were killed and six captured, including Lynch. She suffered spinal fractures, nerve damage and a shattered right arm, right foot and left leg when her Humvee crashed.

The Rangers helped rescue her and dug up the bodies of eight soldiers who had been killed in fighting with her unit, the 507th Maintenance Company.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/28/national/w134249S09.DTL

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Did we not learn personel from the Iraqi hospital put Jessica in an ambulance, at one time, drove to a checkpoint, and tried to turn her over to the Americans, only to be turned back, BEFORE she was, then, "rescued?"

[Straight Shooter]

1. Medals? They should have given them mini-Oscars.

Best supporting actors in a Rovian drama.

[saigon68]

5. Reminds me of the Movie

The Mouse That Roared.


The Mouse That Roared tells the story of the fictional European principality of Grand Fenwick. Finding itself on the wrong end of a trade dispute with the United States, and noting America's generosity in rebuilding the countries it had fought in World War II, Grand Fenwick's rulers hit upon the idea of declaring war on the U.S., losing, and then reaping a Marshall Plan-style handout. The plan, proposed by Grand Fenwick's prime minister (played by Peter Sellers), is approved by the monarch (also played by Peter Sellers), who dispatches an invasion force under the command of Grand Fenwick's hapless Field Marshal (also played by Peter Sellers). Due to a series of happenstances and misunderstandings, however, Grand Fenwick's plan goes terribly wrong..

[Cocoa]

11. lol

and the Washington Post should get Best Adapted Screenplay, they did wonders with the Pentagon's original script.

[uppityperson]

2. "Rescue"?

:rofl:

[joeybee12]

3. In answer to your question, "No, we didn't learn...we never learn...

...we're Americans..we have teflon on our brains."

[Judi Lynn]

6. Great image, teflon brains! Very apt. n/t

[wookie294]

4. Reagan gave medals to the soldiers who protected America from Grenada

After the 1983 invasion of the unarmed nation, Grenada, Reagan handed out hundreds of medals to the soldiers who galliantly saved America from the island.

[FSogol]

7. True. Gary Trudeau (Doonesbury) called it the Special Olympics

for the military.

[jedr]

8. I hope they run for government office;

They should be very easy to " swift boat" Karma has it way of coming around!:evilgrin:

[Joey Liberal]

9. The 75th Rangers were once a proud, elite unit

They seem to have fallen on hard times since Bush stole the election in 2000. I love the Rangers. They aren't being well led. Look at the Tillman incident AND this story.

[saigon68]

14. Ah Yes the "TILLMAN" incident

Shot in the back by his own people

Awarded a Silver Star

Can you say poster boy for failure, spun so the rustic sheep buy more yellow refigerator magnets for the trunks of their 1988 rolling rusty junkpiles.

[Wilber_Stool]

10. Let's just hope that

none of them run for public office as democrats.

[NYC]

12. I thought they had given up that pretense.

I guess I thought wrong.

[leesa]

13. Do they mean the Iraqi doctors who saved her life?

[cmd]

15. Will they be sitting with Laura during the SOTU? n/t