Ex-POW tells Glamour she still gets hate mail (Jessica Lynch)

[babylonsister]

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/ap_lynch_070606/

Ex-POW tells Glamour she still gets hate mail

The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jun 6, 2007 12:32:21 EDT

NEW YORK — Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch still receives hate mail, four years after her capture and long after publicly disputing the military’s exaggerated accounts of her capture and rescue in Iraq.

The former Army private from Palestine, W.Va., was severely injured and 11 other soldiers killed when their convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah in 2003. Lynch, one of six soldiers captured, was later rescued by American troops from an Iraqi hospital, but the military’s account of the ambush embellished her role to make it sound more heroic.

Lynch, who testified before Congress in April, has received some 30,000 letters from people across the country. While most are from supporters, there are plenty of critics.

“People say, ‘You didn’t do anything in Iraq.’ Sometimes I think I’m the most hated person in America,” she told Glamour magazine for the July issue appearing on newsstands June 12.

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[Benhurst]

1. She could have played along with the Bush Crime Family's military

and remained a "hero." Instead, she told the truth, an act which often takes courage in BushAmerica, and became a true hero.

[wicket]

7. And the moment she did, the Bushies leaked the story that she had been anally raped

I really really really hate these fucks :grr:

Jessica Lynch definitely is a true hero for standing up to them.

[BikeWriter]

53. Lynch stood up for Lori Piestewa's family, too.

[Kutjara]

2. I'll bet every one of the haters has a yellow ribbon on their SUV.

"Support the troops, but only those who reinforce our simplistic, jingoistic notions of war" is a bit too long to fit on a ribbon, which is presumably why they leave the last part out.

[gratuitous]

3. The most hated person in America?

Sorry Jessica; you're not even in the top 10 million. And as for the ignoramuses criticizing you, simply consider the source and ignore the braying of the jackasses.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

4. Initially, I didn't think she was a hero. Now, she IS one of my heroes!!!

In spite of what others say to you, Pvt Lynch,...honesty IS honorable!!!

:patriot:

[Captain Hilts]

6. Right, because she doesn't claim to be a hero.

Sad.

[johnaries]

65. That, and because she STOOD UP to the propaganda machine

of the Pentagon and the Bush Administration. It would be very tempting for anyone to let the government make them into a Hero for something they didn't do and reap the rewards. It would be very easy to justify doing so since "the government thinks it's for the good of the Country"
It takes a special kind of integrity to resist that and stand up for the Truth. It takes a True Hero to stand up under those circumstances.
Pvt Lynch, I salute you!
:patriot:

[RC Quake]

5. She really needs to grow a thicker skin.

I just love it when public figures think they should be immune to criticism. Kind of like that crying and whining Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

[blondeatlast]

8. Elizabeth Hasselbeck is an entertainer. Private Lynch served her country in battle.

See the difference? She didn't ask for it, the RRRepublicans saw cute and blonde and jumped all over it.

Nice try, but the Heritage Foundation needs more than FR operatives. Thanks for playing.

[hlthe2b]

58. ahh, like a moth to a light..... stories on Lynch always bring out...

the "visitors" it seems.....:eyes:

[wicket]

9. It's a huge stretch to compare Pvt. Lynch with Hasselbeck

Give me a break. :eyes:

[AuntPatsy]

10. She did nothing to deserve that hit from you, you obviously are in denial

of who pushed her into the spotlight, it was not her desire..

[Bluebear]

11. Like she signed up to be a "public figure". nt

[HeeBGBz]

Hasselbeck chose to be a public figure

Lynch was serving her country and was used for propaganda.

You walk a mile in her shoes and see how thick your skin is.

[Richard Steele]

12. You clearly have very little grasp of the subject you address, and thus appear foolish. nm

[blondeatlast]

13. Edit: DU soing strange things to me. Sorry... nt

[Selatius]

14. Yeah, I'm sure Hasselbeck got shot all to hell and back to be on TV.

You're comparing apples and oranges, buddy. Lynch didn't ask to be turned into a propaganda tool of the Pentagon.

[Gato Moteado]

15. interesting post

your post count is a tad bit higher than someone i would expect would say that.

[gatorboy]

21. Some disrupt...Well.

[Javaman]

25. note when the poster first became a member...

then figure the average post counts per month.

it's a freep that comes on time to time to stir the shit.

there are plenty of them, but the problem is, it's hard to get them banned because of the time the have been on DU and they let loose with mildly controversial comments that rides the thin line of stupidity.

Just enough to get them flamed but not enough to get them tomb-stoned.

[Morgana LaFey]

42. Yep

You nailed it.

[hatrack]

16. What a pathetic cheap shot

As a soldier, she went where she was sent and survived and then told the truth about it.

She's been raked over the coals by some assclowns for breaking with the Official Story(TM), so therefore she "needs to grow a thicker skin"?

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

[gatorboy]

20. I take it you're pro hate mail. Why am I not surprised...

:eyes:

[dansolo]

66. Probably one of the people who sent the hate mail

[MyNameGoesHere]

23. Wow got $h!^ for brains or what? n/t

[nosmokes]

24. WHAT?!?!?!

she was a fecking teenager who volunteered for the army! she din't choose any of this. get a thicker skin. sheesh. get an empathy gene. why doncha.

[Name removed]

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[MichaelHarris]

28. Hey RC Quack

your Granny called, she needs her bunions rubbed.

[kestrel91316]

29. She's not a public figure, lol. She's a PRIVATE CITIZEN.

But you go right ahead and keep spitting on her.

[Greyskye]

32. dude, you need a reality check

:wtf:

[Stinky The Clown]

33. You're being sarcastic, right?

Or are you just pretending to be an insensitive lout?

By the way ... tell your handler you got made.

[wicket]

37. "By the way ... tell your handler you got made."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :yourock:

[blondeatlast]

45. cha-CHING!!! Excellent--can I steal that? !

:rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

46. Mais oui, mon cherie

But I gotta warn ya ..... I got busted here for using it a while ago. (the personal attack rule) :hi:

Use it with great caution and extreme discretion ...... or not. :)

[Richard Steele]

47. Brilliant riposte! nm

[pnorman]

38. "Criticism", okay. But cowardly CHEAP SHOTS are another matter altogether!

I hadn't heard of that alleged "anal-rape" story until now, but I'm not in the least bit surprised. I've known "far-right" types all my life, and I consider some of them as good friends. But this new breed of CHICKEN-HAWKS are something else! They can make the most shameless and abusive LIES, with a "clear conscience"!!

I too regard Jessica as a person of great moral courage. Here's another:

pnorman

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

48. PFD Lynch a public figure ? Go back to your hole, boy!

I just love it when greenhorn posters submit pus like this. I'm sure your letter to Private Lynch was every bit as well thought-out and articulate.

You're going to do real well here at DU - as a punching bag. Your public humiliation has just begun. With any luck, you'll be tombstoned before the week is out.

[Richard Steele]

50. You know, the word "pus" just doesn't get used as often as it might could be, IMO.

Kudos to you for that excellent repurposing! :thumbsup:

[bullwinkle428]

49. Hasselbeck originally gained fame as a freaking contestant on "Survivor"!

I think the irony is delicious when one attempts to compare her with Jessica Lynch!!!

[TheMadMonk]

51. You should try for a thinner skull. nt

[BikeWriter]

52. Back off POW Lynch! She never asked to be public!

:mad: She did her duty. Where were you?

[Raine]

55. Watch it...

you're showing your true colors. x(

[BikeWriter]

57. Read here how Lynch backed up her Bros and Sisters in arms!

Jessica Lynch’s real courage, her real heroism, is that she refused to play the role scripted for her by the Pentagon. In fact, she said, her rifle jammed. “I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do,” she said. “I did not shoot. Not a round. Nothing. I don’t look at myself as a hero. My heroes are Lori (Pfc. Lori Piestewa), the soldiers that are over there …” Piestewa is a Hopi Indian woman, a single mother of two, who was Lynch’s best friend and roommate at boot camp. She died in the ambush.
Lynch thanked the Iraqi doctors and nurses for saving her life, and denied they mistreated her. She praised the Iraqi nurse who stroked her hair and sang lullabies to her.
Sawyer asked Lynch if the videotaping of her rescue bothered her. “Yeah, it does, that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,” she replied. “It’s wrong. I don’t know why they filmed it.” Repeatedly she castigated those who tried to transform her into a female Rambo. “It hurt,” she said.
She criticized the administration and the media for rarely mentioning her comrades who died. Lynch remembers and is still grieving.
Lynch has also criticized the media for failing to focus on her sister POW Shoshana Johnson, who is African American. Lynch has backed Johnson’s demand that she receive comparable medical care and disability benefits.
http://www.pww.org/article/view/4437/1/190/

[mitchum]

60. You're either a fool or a tool

[wicket]

62. Both?

:D

[devilgrrl]

63. Dig the hit and run post sir.

eom

[WilliamPitt]

68. *sigh*

It still lives.

[OzarkDem]

70. Welcome to DU!

<sarcasm> :hi:

[Javaman]

17. The link has been pulled. odd. nt

[blondeatlast]

18. Glamour has it posted in its entirety here:

http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/06/jessicalynch

[bananas]

31. It's there, it needs the trailing slash "/"

The DU server software mangles some links,
you have to type in the "/" at the end of the url,
then it works.

[Javaman]

19. It's just like the fundies who appose abortion only to forget about the

kids after they are born.

Same goes with the soldier, the right wing nuts love a soldier getting shot at but once that soldier comes home, they are shit out of luck.

got to love the insanity of the right.

[elocs]

26. Right-to-lifers concern for life begins at conception and ends at birth. n/t

[Cabcere]

36. That about sums it up.

:(

[blondeatlast]

22. Army times link has apparently gone dead; here's the Glamour article:

http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/06/jessicalynch

[babylonsister]

30. Thanks for that; that happens all the time with the Army Times links. nt

[blondeatlast]

44. But of course.

:thumbsup: and a :kick:

[EstimatedProphet]

34. Jeez, what's wrong with people?

Why should she get hate mail for being HONEST? What's happened to this country?

[JoePhilly]

35. What kind of scum sends her hate-mail?

GW and crew sent our military, and a ~100 pound girl to in a war with in sufficient troops. They did it on the cheap. Her support group should have been behind our lines, not in the middle of the battle.

Just one more example of GW's incompetence, and of the right's unwillingness to admit their failure.

They attack an honest hero who lost her friends, and almost lost her life.

The Bush twins should be on a chopper into Iraq as I type.

[MountainLaurel]

40. The sort who think that

Speaking ill of the president or the gubmint should be considered treason and a hanging offense.

[DarkTirade]

39. Support our troops?

[deutsey]

59. Support the Truth...n/t

[Feron]

41. What's wrong with people?!

I will always respect her for telling the truth even though it was unpopular. Most people would have gone along with the hero story.

But then again I suppose weak-willed people are frightened by those with courage.

[Morgana LaFey]

43. Of COURSE she gets hate mail.

She's female and dared speak the truth, going right up against the Official Stories.

[ConsAreLiars]

54. Of course she does. She told the truth., Fascists hate that,

because the truth is their weak spot, and they respond with vitriol.

(edit out stray comma)

[Solly Mack]

56. She shattered some illusions with the truth

People will hate you for that.

[Supersedeas]

61. She was assigned to be a propoganda piece--apparently someone is upset that she did not

fulfill her role.

[labelle]

64. jessica lynch

Good for Jessica for speaking out. Read her full story at glamour.com -- very interesting

[Enrique]

67. someone that hates Jessica Lynch

has got to be a real hard-core hater.

[Enrique]

69. lol at the error message

try clicking on the link. :-)

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/ap_lynch_070606

[labelle]

71. Jessica Lynch

Jessica's full story is here: http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/06/jessicalynch