Reply #16: Maybe the media likes his nice sounding name, sort of like [View All]

Jessica vs. Johnson.... oh the hypocrisy, the spinning, the yarns, the inequality of treatment, the unbalanced coverage, thank gawd Jessica is a truth teller, probably much to the disdain of this WH.


http://www.com.edu/intercom/news.cfm?newsid=45
>>The ambush of the Army's 507th Maintenance Company in Iraq, on March 23 was deadly. Of the 33 soldiers who made a wrong turn into the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah, 11 were killed and six were captured. The deadly battle produced what the media is calling the war's most enduring hero, a West Virginia teen-ager named Jessica Lynch.<<

>>Johnson and Lynch were wounded in the same battle. They were both captured on the same day, both wounded severely by the Iraqi soldiers, but Lynch gets all the fame. According to "A Tale of Two Soldiers," found at www.bet.com, Johnson was shot through both legs and was held prisoner for 21 days. She returned home but without the media flurry and official hype that her friend and comrade-in-arms Jessica Lynch enjoyed.

Johnson walks with a limp and is unable to stand for long periods of time due to her injuries. With so many soldiers killed and wounded in Iraq, shouldn't all receive the same media attention? And in the case of Johnson, doesn't she deserve the same monetary benefits as Lynch?

According to "A Tale ...," Johnson is receiving 30 percent disability benefits for her injuries, whereas Lynch is receiving 80 percent. That amounts to a $600 to $700 difference per month. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who plans to plead Johnson's case at the White House, the Pentagon and to members of Congress, is quoted in "A Tale ..." as saying, "Here's a case of two women, same (unit), same war, everything about their service commitment and their risk is equal .... Yet, there's an enormous contrast between how the military has handled these two cases."<<