Jessica Lynch Laments Military Portrayal
Friday, November 7, 2003
(6:40 AM ET)
The Associated Press
She praised the soldiers who rescued her. ``They're the ones that came in to rescue me. Those are my heroes ... I'm so thankful that they did what they did. They risked their lives. They didn't know, you know, who was in there.''
Former POW Jessica Lynch is photographed Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003, for Vanity Fair's 2003 Hall of Fame, which appears in the December issue, with her parents Greg and Deadra, outside their home in Palestine, W.Va. Lynch is still recovering from injuries she sustained while serving in Iraq. Reports released Thursday say Lynch reveals in her book, "I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," that she was raped by her Iraqi captors. The book is scheduled to be released Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003.
Image Credit: Annie Leibovitz, HO -- AP Photo/Vanity Fair
PALESTINE, W.Va. -- AP
Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch said the U.S. military was wrong to manipulate the story of her dramatic rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place.
The 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer in a ``Primetime'' interview to air Tuesday that she was bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal.
``They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,'' she said in an excerpt from the interview, posted Friday on the network's Web site.
``It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about,'' she said.
She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. ``It's wrong,'' she said.
The former Army supply clerk suffered broken bones and other injuries when her maintenance convoy was attacked in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23. U.S. forces rescued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospital April 1.
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Jack's ancient complaint was merely sloppy intelligence-gathering on the front lines of a hot mission, not the outright “lie†he truly wishes it was. In fact, the whole issue of his complaint -- “early reports had Lynch fighting her attackers until she ran out of ammunition and suffering knife and bullet wounds†-- was aired here at Habitable Zone some months ago, and later corrected -- “military officials later acknowledged that Lynch wasn't shot, but was hurt after her Humvee utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into another vehicle†-- by our O, so terrible Pentagon.
Dan
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