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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 11:59 AM Jun 2014

Bookends. The first POW to the last.

Jessica Lynch was injured when her convoy took a wrong turn, she was hurt badly and her fellow soldiers were killed. She was rescued after nine days and the republicans and media created a story of how she was a Rambo and shooting her enemies. The truth came out later.

The last POW, Bowe Bergdahl returned after five years is being tried in the media and on websites without all of the facts. I believe innocent until proven guilty.

The common thread is all the middle of the POW's the vets who have been forgotten by the same republicans who put them in harms way, yet will not provide funding for their recovery.

It makes me sick.


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Bookends. The first POW to the last. (Original Post) warrior1 Jun 2014 OP
DU Rec. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #1
this photo riverwalker Jun 2014 #2
Not to mention the Pat Tillman fiasco Historic NY Jun 2014 #3
Tillman (in Krakauer's book) sitting at Bagram air base.... underpants Jun 2014 #6
It wasn't the media who created the false narrative about Jessica Lynch. scruboak Jun 2014 #4
Washington Post started it. warrior1 Jun 2014 #5

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
2. this photo
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:10 PM
Jun 2014

the very moment US Special Forces reach out to Bergdahl. The first American contact in 5 1/2 years of captivity.

underpants

(182,623 posts)
6. Tillman (in Krakauer's book) sitting at Bagram air base....
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 01:09 PM
Jun 2014

Completely cut off from all news/media other than, probably , AFN.

Watching as a battalion mobilized to "save" Lynch wrote in his journal that the whole thing smelled like a PR stunt to him.

scruboak

(34 posts)
4. It wasn't the media who created the false narrative about Jessica Lynch.
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:35 PM
Jun 2014

It was the W administration and the Pentagon.

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