the BRONZE FUCKING STAR???

[razorjak]

http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceFileView?file=Hackworth_082703.htm&ESRC=army.nl

I think I'm going to be sick! She was given the Bronze Star for being knocked unconscious while trying to escape an ambush! THIS is what the army has come to. GODS I am so glad I am no longer a member of that organization.

I wonder how she feels being used like this. Does she even realize what a pawn she's become? I don't have anything against her because of receiving the medal. She didn't put herself in for the medal I am sure. But if the circumstances were reversed, I would refuse to accept the medal. I really would.

Comments

[lupa.livejournal.com]

...even if you were ordered by your superior officer to accept it?

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

this story keeps changing in the media. at first they were saying she'd tried to help some of her wounded comrades.

for some reason, i'm having a lot of trouble accepting the revised version... :/

[the-macross.livejournal.com]

dude, she just signed a million dollar book deal. I doubt she gives a flying fuck about the medal.

-///

[mrph.livejournal.com]

There really ought to be a movie, too. A comedy would be all too appropriate.

[ogremarco.livejournal.com]

Could have been worse. Could have been the MOH. I can't believe I just said that.

[absinthea.livejournal.com]

EEEk, yeah...thats what I was thinking.
I think it seems like they are playing her up so much that shes just going to end up cracking. I wonder if its got something to do with lowering their standards just because shes female and making up all the sensationalism to make it look even more like the war efforts were justified.

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

I've always said it sucks that she went through what she did, but I've been unsure about what exactly made her a hero. Seems to me the group of them made some sort of mistake, and thusly, were attacked and captured.

Also, I can't see why any woman would want to be in the army, period, and I really fail to see the logic in how she would help boost female enrollment. "So, this chick got the shit kicked out of her over there, got captured by the enemy forces, shot, etc etc. Sign me up! That sounds BRAVE AND HEROIC! I mean, how else will I ever get to see some lovely middle eastern desert. And my current job never affords me the opportunity to risk my life!"

To me, that would say, "keep me the hell away. Can I find someone to knock me up, just to be sure I never have to get within 100 miles of that life?"

I mean, I know I am not the sort who would *ever* be in any sort of armed forces because when it comes down to it, I'm a wuss. But still... she, and her experience, doesn't quite seem like a selling point....

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

Also, I can't see why any woman would want to be in the army, period,

why would any man, for that matter?

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I have no idea. I was just referencing the article's point about Jessica Lynch being used to inspire women to enlist, and how stunningly illogical that seems to me.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

*nods* i'm just not the army type :)

[bluez.livejournal.com]

Run, Forrest, run! :P

[jruske.livejournal.com]

Welcome to U.S.A. 200x

The decade known for:
- Irresponsible people not being held accountable for their actions because that's just plain unfair
- Fictionalized drama of the war on terror because we've got to justify all this military spending in the press and effective actions just don't generate good coverage
- Merging of the Mexican citizenry with American citizens by granting them rights and privileges and minority status despite their end run around the legal migration processes
- Disposing of the last vestiges of American manufacturing power to Far East Asia while transitioning technological development to the near East Asia to cement a permanent shift in the economy to intellectual capital generation and bureacracy (aka paper) management

Sad sad stuff...

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

agreed.

i gnash my teeth especially at the first one.