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Date: 2003-07-22 07:34:05

Comment:

If Lynch deserves a Bronze Star, every other grunt who actually engaged the enemy should get at least a silver star.  She did nothing extraordinary, was in fact so banged up in the initial collision that she was unconscious and helpless, never fired a weapon-the last "brave" thing Jessica did was to enlist to get out of the dead-end backwater of her home town existence. This is all crap, illusion to pump up women and service people in general, pandering to an ignorant, wide-eyed mass who want somebody to worship regardless of whether somebody made them up.
Lynch will rightly deserve the purple heart as she was injured by direct enemy action compensation and, if disabled by her injuries, will probably receive disabled veteran status and be entitled to tax-free pay and life-long free medical care from the VA.  No way she earned the Bronze Star unless they are now being awarded for just eing there while bad things were happening.The citation should read"for providing the US Army a special photo video subject and an opportunity to create a self-serving fantasy." The average, witless American needs to gush at "real" events like they do at contrivances like soap operas and adolescent fantasy movies and "stars", so the lies perpetrated about Lynch are welcomed with frenzy.