PFC Jessica Lynch coming home!

[streetsoldier]

This from FoxNews...PFC Jessica Lynch is scheduled to be leaving Germany for Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D.C. at 0700 hours EDT Saturday, FYI.

[ColdFront77]

Wonderful news! That is about the time that she was expected to return to the States.

I havn't had Fox News Channel on for the last few hours. I will be tuning in, in a couple minutes.

[streetsoldier]

Sheppard Smith "promises" that "we wil be all over this story as it develops"...but if previous reports are any indication, this will be from a respectful distance.

What I am waiting to see is President Bush visiting her after she gets "settled in"...

[JetMaxx]

That's wonderful news! It's only about 200 miles from DC to Elizabeth, WV....which will make it much easier on the family, especially in relaying information to other family members at the hospital in Washington.

If everything I'm reading is true....Jessica Lynch has nerves beyond anything I've ever seen. I'm hearing she's sleeping soundly WITHOUT medication. I have nightmares after watching a horror flick.

I'm also hearing some sad news....that the gunshots to Jessi's legs were done as torture. I also saw a horrid report that the Fedeyeens used psychological torture on Jessica: they obtained a photo of her parents off the web, hold it in front of her face with a gun to her head and tell her she'd never see "mommy and daddy" again

I'm just glad to hear she's much better and coming home. Maybe she'll be able to see the get well board soon. I recieved an email from Alan Jackson's fan club president (she's also his aunt) this evening and she said Alan was planning to post Jessi a get well; and that he also felt like she was his little sister

Perry

[streetsoldier]

G. Gordon Liddy may have let something "slip" when he was interviewed on FoxNews last night; he still has some good intelligence connections, and he mentioned (briefly) something about Jessica's leg, back and foot-ankle injuries being a result of having been "tied upside down by the ankles and beaten with clubs" (quote)...all the more reason, IMO, NOT to allow NBC or CBS to proceed with ANY film without specific permission from her family.

[vbhoutex]

I've posted it elsewhere, but I'll post it here too. Email NBC with your feelings about this at nbcshows@nbc.com.

Amen to that one Streetsoldier!!

[JetMaxx]

I have such immense respect for that brave young woman it's unbelievable.

According both to media reports and what a cousin and a friend of the family tell me, Jessica refused to break. She only gave them her name, rank, and serial number, which 1) infuriated the interrogators...but 2) might have saved her life.

They knew she killed Fedeyeen commando's and probably wanted to break her before ending her life. I'm absolutely thrilled to hear she has told her family she gives God the credit...she was praying to Jesus the entire time and even though it was horrible, she was able to remain strong and endure.

I know there was a lot of agonized prayers on her behalf. I've prayed a lot of prayers the past 30+ years, but haven't prayed with that fervor in a long time. People can say what they want, but it did mean more to me because she was a teenage girl. I've never hit a woman in my life..even Becky. We'd scrap as kids (she was a little brat , but I'd always hold back...in fact, I'd usually just grab sis around the waist and tickle her...God she hated that Even when I was 10 and her 6, I was far too big to hit her.

I can't understand the mindset of hitting a teenage girl. Even though Jessica is a US soldier, you'd think there was some sympathy because of her age and petite size...but no. They were as brutal to her as they would be to a 6'3 220 lb Drill Sgt. It's an evil I can't comprehend. The only place you see animals like that in America is on death row.

I was discussing it with a lady I went to school with....we've known each other since 3rd grade, and we both find it incredible she survived. She also served in the army, as a supply clerk...and she said while yes, they are trained in basic to fire weapons and defend themselves, they aren't prepared...mentally, for an ambush far behind the front (or surviving physical and psychological torture for over a week like Jessi endured). Tammy compared the ambush as like being carjacked at a red light at midnight--you can plan and train to defend yourself with deadly force, but nothing can simulate the real thing--as a supply clerk, the mindset just isn't there of a massive surprise attack. I've never been a soldier, so I'm only taking her word, as well as what Tracie (one of Becky's friends a well as my dad) told me about basic training.

I have it on good authority that Jessica learned to shoot well before joining the army by hunting and shooting guns with her brother and dad near her home; which is very believable. That's how my sister and me both learned..shooting cans off a fence, bottles, targets at my uncles farm out in the country. We'd use a shotgun, .22 rifle, dad's old .38. I've spent many summer afternoons growing up plinking at cans and targets. It was as natural to us as putting a cane pole in the farm pond fishing.

What people can't seem to understand is this wasn't some "brutish" masculine woman (Janet Reno, Chyna). While yes, apparently she's always been a tomboy, Jessica is still a girl...she wanted pink casts, her hairbrush.
Becky's the same way. She'd climb trees, shoot bb guns, and fish like the rest of us, but she also wanted her nails done, the frilly dresses..she was still a "girl". Becky enjoyed the bubble baths, the manicures, things like that.

Both Becky and Jessica played basketball in high school--yet both also competed in local beauty pageants.

I've never met Jessica, but I don't see my little sis enduring torture in an Iraqi prison for nine days (especially not at 19)....but she might have surprised me. Becky was a brave girl....and still is. She had three kids, and her hubby and me were more nervous than her every time. Sis defintely endures being stuck with needles and IV's better than me