Author Topic: PFC Lynch gets Bronze Star and Hero's welcome.. (Read 3086 times)

muckmaw · « **on:** July 22, 2003, 09:41:47 AM »

Anyone want to touch this one?

I've got my thoughts on it.

Scootter · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2003, 09:55:50 AM »

Yea, like a funeral the welcome is not just for the one honored, and the Bronze Star and Purple Hart are deserved by her as much as most others who get the same award.

Don't be so critical, that s the media’s job.

muckmaw · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:26:15 AM »

Purple heart, yes.

Bronze Star...not so sure..

The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army of the United States after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy; or while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

Does this mean anyone who was wounded in the gulf war will be getting a Bronze Star?

Did she do something besides get lost, get shot and get captured?

I thought I remembered reading she shot and killed 3 enemy soldiers, but I don't recall where and remember thinking this sounded like media hype.

Hortlund · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:51:12 AM »

Lets assume for a second that the officer awarding her the medal knows more about what she did and how, than we do, and leave it at that shall we?

Or perhaps muckmaw would like to review all medals awarded in the war in Iraq? Perhaps you would like a veto right too?

Erlkonig · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:53:54 AM »

Oh brother, the Army just doesn't know when to stop when it comes to the fable of Private Lynch.

muckmaw · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:57:19 AM »

Perhaps the officer awarding the medal knows he's been told to do so at a time when soldiers are coming home in bags every day, and the administration needs a hero to shine the spotlight on and say "Hey, we did good in Iraq, did'nt we".

So they make a movie of the week and give her the bronze star.

Making hollywood bs out of what is an earned honor for so many servicemen and women is wrong.

Now, do any of us know all the facts about Lynch? Of course not. But since when did the facts have anything to do with this bbs?

Seriously, from what I know about the case, I simply never heard of anything that warrants the receipt of the bronze star.

No sarcasm here...does anyone know of any facts about her performance that warrants the bronze star?

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:59:27 AM »

Leave it alone.

We need heroes, we need fables. Its good for the psyche.

DoctorYO · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2003, 10:59:56 AM »

Bronze star for a traffic accident? wtf

granted she was a POW and her injuries merit the purple heart but what the hell is a bronze star going to here for?

I dont concur with this it brings discredit to others who have earned their Bronze Star in combat... (note combat)

Now if the initial reports that she still fought until gun jam propganda were true then i think the Bronze star is in order..

This is my opinion treat it as such...

DoctorYO

Mini D · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:02:34 AM »

Petty jealousy. Misguided bitterness. No need to say more.

Torque · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:04:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Erlkonig
Oh brother, the Army just doesn't know when to stop when it comes to the fable of Private Lynch.

I heard Micheal Moore is being touted as the front runner to direct the Made for TV movie.

MotorOil · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:08:24 AM »

This is nothing more than a CNN made story. It's all publicity. I bet she never fired a single round. All she is guilty of is surviving a horrific event when many of her compatriot did not.

The media went wild with the story and the facts came out later. It makes the government look good to give her lots medals as the story is in the media so much.

On the flip side, I wouldn't take that away from her. She lived and I bet that's all that matters to her and her family. No medals will make up for what she's already lost.

Apache · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:08:26 AM »

When she was a prisoner of war, I was at home, sitting on the couch under the air conditioner.

I say good for her.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:23:39 AM »

ditto

SLO · « **Reply #13 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:44:52 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Leave it alone.

We need heroes, we need fables. Its good for the psyche.

even if it isn't true....

Erlkonig · « **Reply #14 on:** July 22, 2003, 11:45:45 AM »

You buncha dang liberals and your "feel good" measures. You can't handle the truth!