Lynch Gets Medal of Valor

[erpowers]

How do members of DU feel about Jessica Lynch getting a warriors medal of valor. This was done by an Indian Tribe at the anniversary ceremony mainly in honor of Lynch fellow solider. I do not dislike Jessica Lynch, but since she seems to have not done anything valorous during the attack of her convoy I do not think she should have been given a medal of valor.

[jdj]

1. I think she deserves it just for telling the truth about the Pentagon lies

she didn't have to. She has told the truth from day one, and said that Lori Piestewa was the one that went down shooting, that Lori was the one that was brave and that fought until the end.

Jessica Lynch is the most valorous person in that whole situation, and Larry Flynt comes in second for refusing to publish the topless photos of her.

I guess it depends on what your priorities are. Someone who is brave enough to say "I wish none of this had ever happened, then Lori would still be alive." She called bullshit on some of the most powerful people in this country, you can't get more brave than that.

[jedr]

5. so true,

the real hero's are dead, the rest of us were just lucky, and the ones who do the least brag the most....

[blogbear]

2. I wonder what justification the Indian tribe had..Did they say?

[jdj]

3. Hopi.

Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe and a single mother of two, is believed to be the first American Indian woman killed while fighting for the U.S. military. She was 23.

Lynch said she wouldn't have survived if not for Piestewa.

"She taught me to be an individual, to never give up. I believe that the help from her is why I am alive today," Lynch said.

Hundreds attended the ceremony and commended the women's bravery, including members of area churches, American Indian officials and politicians. A member of the Havasupai-Grand Canyon tribe used feathers to send sage smoke through the crowd while members of the Sioux tribe sang to the rhythm of a beating drum.

Lori's father, Terry Piestewa, brushed tears from his eyes when mariachis dedicated a song to Lynch.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0323Lynch-ON.html

[blueroses]

4. It wasn't her fault

that the corrupt Pentagon used her ordeal as a propaganda tool to sell this immoral war. However, I can't help but like her personally, know what I mean?

[blogbear]

6. welcome to DU!