Posted on 02/05/2010 6:12:09 PM PST by Redcitizen
(AP) Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn't so easy when she came home, either.
In a new book out this week, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems related to her captivity and tells how it felt to play second fiddle in the media to fellow POW Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the same ambush.
"It was kind of hurtful," the former Army cook said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "If I'd been a petite, cutesy thing, it would've been different."
I’d like some attribution for everything you’re alleging in your two posts. Where’s the link to these “stories”?
Any combat our military is likely to see in the forseeable future will be with 3rd world tribal type combatants. Female POWs will be sexually assualted, beaten and possibly killed. This fact needs to be made very public, and a total reassessment on the role of females in the US military should be undertaken.
Male POWs aren’t exempt from torture and murder as mentioned earlier in this thread. What hasn’t been mentioned yet was several US POWs in DS-I were castrated before they were murdered. They were found to have been circumsized, and were assumed to be Jews.
Oh please, Lucy..............look at HER own opening words. I rest my case.
The media would rather cover accusations that Halliburton employees raped Americans stationed in Iraq than ever discuss the mistreatment of captured American troop by Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, etc...
Our MSM will not highlight it because it would be admitting that there are differences. THAT article I linked tries to say it happens to men, probably sometimes, but it WILL happen to the girls. That one woman had both arms and legs broken and was apparently repeatedly raped.
Near silence from the MSM.
I was going to get around to asking him for that myself.
I’m especially curious how they pinned down the specific SF personnel and their deaths.
There was an incident in the Iraq war (from 2003 or 2004) where some US troops were captured, tortured, killed, and shown on tv with their pants pulled down.
It went down the collective memory hole.
Wonder if the war criminals behind those deeds were ever prosecuted. I mean, now that the war is over and all.
“It was kind of hurtful. If I’d been a petite, cutesy thing, it would’ve been different.” Damn straight. And the same goes for me, too. How’d Kennedy put it? Oh, yeah, “Life is not fair.” That’s how he saw it, some time before Oswald shot him.
The thing is that none of the women did anything special, but if you read post 26, then you can see that it was thought that Jessica Lynch had made a heroic fight, which would have made her one of the great female combatants in history, that would have created the media frenzy, not the fact that she was a cute, white girl that was only injured and captured, the same as Johnson was.
This entire incident was a great humiliation and a terrible insult to the men that fought bravely that day.
What’s the source you’re excerpting from?
“Have zero memory of her. What a whinny twerp.”
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That was really rude. She was the first female Native American to give her life and for that she should be honored.
What a POS post! BTW, “whinny” is what a horse does, twerp.
It might take me a while to find it, I was using it the other day on a different thread and I didn’t save the link.
I’ll start looking for it again.
Here is a short FR thread on it, but the links to the original story are broken.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/990912/posts
Yes, she was a driver until she crashed and then she died from the wounds, from the wreck.
In a new book out this week, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems related to her captivity and tells how it felt to play second fiddle in the media to fellow POW Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the same ambush.
"It was kind of hurtful," the former Army cook said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "If I'd been a petite, cutesy thing, it would've been different."
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What I see is a lede and following paragraph by an AP writer who is putting events, and opinions about Johnson's book in his/her own words.
In the third paragraph I see a quote by Johnson. I don't know the question to which she responded, or how it was worded. I don't know if that is Johnson's full response to the question, or whether it was taken out of context to evoke a certain opinion in the reader of this article.
I don't find her quote, such as it is, to be particularly damning. I think she is basically saying that Lynch received attention from the press that wasn't given to herself, and the others, because Lynch fit a template the media wanted for their coverage that wasn't met by the others.
No, really? Damn.
“Yes, she was a driver until she crashed and then she died from the wounds, from the wreck.”
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Which still makes her dead. She’s still a Native American. She’s still a dead Native American in combat. Show some respect for the dead Veteran.
Well first she is not dead and not Indian.
I do think warriors should be honored, but I am sick to death of everything being about race. And she was whining.
How did I disrespect a dead veteran?
I think that you are showing disrespect to all American veterans and active duty and America itself by being obsessed with that GI because she was an Indian.
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