I’m completely inundated with work. I needed to take a break, so here are some curious things in the news.
Jessica Lynch to tell story in book. Of course. Here’s a quote from her “spokesman:” “Jessica and her family have concluded that the most appropriate and complete telling of this story will be in a book, which they will have more to say about soon.”
By “appropriate and complete” he means “lucrative.” This is why she wouldn’t tell her story from the beginning. If everyone knew the facts in the beginning, who would buy the book? Also, she was probably told to keep quiet so the governmental propaganda machine could have fun with her “rescue” or “hero” story.
Piecing puzzle of Sept. 11 flight. The article revisits the theories of how this flight was brought down in a field in the middle of Pennsylvania. Mysteriously gone from the list of possibilities is the formerly widely-accepted theory that the military air support shot this plane down. As far as I know this hasn’t been disproven, and according to the flight data originally released (and later tucked away for security reasons) this seemed to be the most viable theory according to many. Now it’s not even mentioned at all; instead the tale of the downed plane has become another “hero story.”
Picture a mother walking with her teenage daughter along the beach. “Do you ever get that… manipulated feeling?” the daughter, a young adult learning about the way of the world, asks her wiser mother.
And the thing is, how exciting is the Jessica Lynch story, really? I mean, she got captured. So…that’s not really all that exciting. And then she got rescued. Now, I don’t know if the rescue was daring or dramatic, but I imagine it was probably FAIRLY routine, and probably doesn’t really necessitate an entire book to tell the story. I don’t know. I don’t really see how she’s a hero. I mean, sure, she got captured and she survived, and I sure do appreciate her putting her life on the line for the country and all, but I don’t see how she’s really a hero. I’d think of her more as LUCKY.
I think you’ve nailed it.I Was Pretty Damn Lucky:The Jessica Lynch Story
But she didn’t get captured. She got hurt. She was brought to a hospital. They weren’t holding her hostage in the hospital, they were treating her. If they wanted to hold her hostage, why would she be in the hospital? She was rescued from the hospital… by guys with loud guns and rubber bullets to fend off the doctors who were happy to let the Americans in.I don’t need to buy a book to read about it. It was all in the news, but basically hidden in the form of a retraction, a couple of weeks after the original “rescue” story broke.
Oh, see…I didn’t even know that part of it. All I heard was the sensationalized parts. Hey, I don’t watch much news. What I heard was, “Jessica Lynch, American hero, rescued in Iraq” or “Saving Private Lynch”. It’s even worse than I thought…