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Originally posted by Fletch XXX@Nov 6 2003, 05:55 PM
try to look at it from this womans view:
'For Mrs. Arlene Walters those unearned honors are a direct slap in the face for the mother of the soldier who actually did what Lynch was said to have done, and died doing it.
According to his fellow soldiers, her son, Sgt. Donald Walters was killed after mounting a lone stand against the Iraqis. Yet few, if any, of the Americans watching Private Lynch's homecoming have even heard her son's name. "The military tell us that everyone who was in her unit was a hero," Mrs. Walters said. "In fact they have singled out Jessica Lynch as the hero, and they are not giving the recognition to my son that he deserves.
"The fighter that they thought was Jessica Lynch was Donald," Mrs. Walters told Australia’s The Age. "When he was found he had two stab wounds in the abdomen, and he'd been shot once in the right leg and twice in the back. And he'd emptied his rounds of ammunition. Just like they said Jessica had done at first."'
id be a bit pissed too, wouldnt you?
http://realpolitik.us/archives/001325.php
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I agree with that woman 100% There are thousands of untold stories that will never be told just like that one. There are people that contributed far more and recieved less but does this make what has happened to Lynche wrong?
She was there, she was injured in the line of duty, and a POW. Her story as it was first told was not as it seemed but we can thank the media machine for blowing that one up for us but, is she wrong for what she has accepted considering her ordeal?