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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBookends. 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.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)the very moment US Special Forces reach out to Bergdahl. The first American contact in 5 1/2 years of captivity.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)underpants
(182,623 posts)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)It was the W administration and the Pentagon.