More on Jessica from Fox News

[deb_in_nc]

I watched the interview this evening. Doctors said they couldn't find entry wound for gunshot or stab wounds.It may be that she doesn't want to worry her parents too much.







Thursday, April 03, 2003

PALESTINE, W.Va. — The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday she was in great spirits following her first surgery and said she had not been shot or stabbed during her ordeal.





The family held a news conference at their home in rural Palestine following a briefing by the Department of Defense.

Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, was rescued from an Iraqi hospital on Tuesday, more than a week after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy made a wrong turn and was ambushed by Iraqi troops. Other members of the company have been listed as prisoners of war, missing in action or killed.

Lynch is being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in southwestern Germany for a fractured disc, two fractured legs and a broken arm. She successfully underwent surgery Thursday to repair her back, said her father, Greg Lynch Sr.

"The doctors has completed one surgery on her back. They have released the pressure on a nerve and realigned all the discs ... that was because she didn't have any feeling in her feet," he said.

Despite her injuries, Lynch's father and mother said she was in good spirits and they expected to talk to her later in the day. Lynch is expected to undergo surgery on her legs and right forearm Friday.

Her parents said they could not confirm reports that their daughter fought with her captors, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition.

"We don't know if that's true," said her mother, Deadra. "That is just what we have read. That is something my daughter would do. She is a fighter. She doesn't give up."

The family held a news conference after meeting with representatives of the Department of Defense's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency. They said the briefing didn't focus on what happened to Lynch during her captivity.

The meeting "just mainly familiarized us with what is going on over there, with the doctors over there," her father said. "It wasn't anything we really didn't already know."

The Lynches said they talked to their daughter after her back surgery. The conversation centered on family matters.

"I told her she was a hero. She felt good about that," her mother said. "She was real sharp. She's just our Jessi."

Lynch asked her parents for a hair brush "and things girls would ask for," her mother said.

"We know she is in good spirits because they told her they were going to put pink casts on her legs and arm. And she had a pink cast when she was in the third grade on her arm," her father said.

The family said they are not sure when Lynch will be flown back to the United States. They decided against a trip to Germany.

"We want that to be on Jessi's terms," her father said. "When she is ready, I'm sure she will let us know and we'll be on the way."

During an earlier conversation on Thursday, Lynch expressed curiosity about whether her March 23 capture and April 1 rescue during a military raid on the Iraqi hospital had made the local newspaper, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel.

"She doesn't know what kind of uproar she's caused right now," her brother, Greg Lynch Jr., said Thursday morning. "She's definitely a hero. Whether she realizes it or not -- not only to our family, but to the whole nation."

[streetsoldier]

It's good that she and her family, along with her medical staff, have chosen not to reveal all the "details"...but one of the people who was on the plane with her said that he was 6'2" and 220 lbs, and he wouldn't have been able to survive what he saw.

He also described her as a "tiny little thing"...she seems to have introduced some of her own "shock and awe' to the fedayeen that captured her.

[mf_dolphin]

Any man that has witnessed his wife during childbirth can attest to the strength and pain tolerance of a woman. If childbirth were up to men Adam and Eve would have been the last humans!

[rainstorm]

i heard the injuries she has were not caused on the battlefield. i still have not heard what happened to the iraqis that had her prisoner

[Amanzi]

A very fiesty and brave young lady.

You are right MF. There would be less of a gene pool if men had to give birth!

[mf_dolphin]

But women don't know how to start a really good bar-b-que! LOL

[Amanzi]

I DO! A really good one. Just stick some starter fuel on it throw on a match and Bob's your uncle!

[mf_dolphin]

Amanzi, a really good bar-b-que has to make the neighbors think the whole house is on fire when you start it!

[Amanzi]

OH. Thats what mine normally look like. Well to the ants anyway!

[JetMaxx]

From what I've found on the internet, Jessica is 5'4" and weighs 100-110 lbs.

I've always heard dynamite comes in small packages

[JQ Public]

thats great news. i guess breaking news is subject to change ALOT!