Look, what she went through obviously was not a good thing, I'm not
denying that. The POW Medal and Purple Heart are well deserved for
her experiences. The Purple Heart is for the injuries sustained
during the crash, and the POW medal is obviously for having to endure
being a POW. I imagine being a POW is never a fun experience, but
Lynch had it about as good as one can have it in that regard. She was
a POW in a hospital where Iraqi doctors were taking care of her. She
wasn't beaten, raped, shot or stabbed, and she was under *decent*
medical care according to our own medical personnel. Without a doubt,
her experience was a *far* better one compared to what some of the
other POW's had to go through, and most of them didn't get a BS. A
rescue would have been attempted for any of the POW's, had they had
intel on where they were at. Just because she was rescued doesn't
mean her POW situation was the worst one of all. It only means they
knew where she was. What, do you think the people that make those
decisions said "let's rescue Lynch because she's so bad off, but we'll
let the other POW's sit there and rot"? No, they rescued her because
they knew where the hell she was! Add to the fact that she's a young
girl that's somewhat pretty, and all of the sudden she's an American
hero. What a joke. Unlike most of you in this group (not all, but
most), I'm not talking out of my ass. I was in Afghanistan, and
recieved a Medal with a Combat "V" for Heroism. What I had to get it
was more harrowing than sitting in a hospital witing to be rescued.
Had I been a POW, I would have expected a POW medal. Had I been
injured, I would have expected a Purple Heart. But in order for me to
get a BS, I would have had to have done something else *other* than
those two things to deserve it. There isn't one person in this forum
that can tell me she did anything else *other* than get injured in an
auto accident that was caused by an RPG (Purple Heart covers this),
and then spend time as a POW (POW medal covers this) that is
completely seperate from those two specific intances. Anything heroic
*other* than those two things may constitute a BS, but there isn't
anything else that she did. You are supposed to get one medal for
each specific thing you do. You do *not* get two or three medals for
the same thing, as she did. What she did was already covered by the
PH and the POW. The fact that they threw a BS in the mix is nothing
but politics based on her being america's current sweetheart. Being
active duty military, everyone that I have ever spoken to (we have had
numerous discussion about this at work)understands this, and therefore
strongly disagrees with her recieving a BS. If she had done
something to deserve it, we would be more than happy to see her get
it, but that isn't the case. The only people that seem to agree with
her receiving the BS are civilians or retired military that have
*never* been in combat and do not understand how these things are
supposed to work. Also, my thoughts on this would be exactly tyhr
same if she were a male. I have seen (in the same conflict I was in),
senior officers recieve high medals for literally doing nothing but
being present in country. The were never part of any raids, they
never fired any shots, they didn't participate in any cave-hunts, they
didn't rescue anyone from a minefield.. They did nothing. Yet they
recieved medals that would cause someone that saw said medal, to
assume they had done somethng heroic. It's unfortunate that this
happens, but it does. PFC Lynch is yet another example of crappy
politics at work. Regardless of your *opinions* on this matter, the
*fact* is that PFC Lynch was awarded a medal she did not deserve.
(ArtKramr) wrote in message ...
Subject: PFC Lynch gets a Bronze Star?
From: (M Power)
Date: 7/24/03 12:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject: PFC Lynch gets a Bronze Star?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 7/24/03 2:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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You're comparing apples to oranges. She got into a auto accident.
So you presumably think Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed
in a boating accident ?
Keith
Please put down the crack-pipe and speak sensibly. Thank you.
Your inability to post a substantive response is noted.
Keth
That analogy was over his head.I thought it was pretty clever. (grin)
It wasn't clever, nor was it over my head. An IRA bombing on a boat
has nothing to do with PFC Lynch since the only thing that happened to
her was an auto accident. She wasn't shot, she wasn't stabbed, she
wasn't beaten. Bad analogy and a bad argument.
Arthur Kramer
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http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer
Yeah they say she had a real fun time as a PW and a patient in an Iraqi Why did
they have to rush in and rescue her when she was having such a great time as a
captive? But since you went through the same experience you would know all
about that. Right?
Arthur Kramer
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer