Breaking: Fox News: Jessica lynch has "Amnesia"

Fox News | 03 May 03 | Rita Cosby

[TXnMA]

Fox News' Rita Cosby has just announced that the military says that Jessica Lynch cannot remember anything after the ambush. They say she was "traumatized" and is "blocking out the memories".

Psychiatrists are helping her recover her memories because she "is probably our best witness for war crimes prosecution".

Still developing...

[halfdome]

Oh please, both her parents and her doctors said she was not shot. And the hospital staff, one of whom included the Iraqi doctor who took such good care of her in the hospital, said that when Jessica Lynch was rescued, the Iraqis had already abandoned the hospital and there was no resistance. I did not read this on DU, or in the papers, I saw these people interviewed, and I saw the press conferences held by Jessica's parents and doctors. You can blame them if you feel something has been misrepresented.

[Ciexyz]

The Central Park jogger is grateful she remembers nothing. (For her sake, so am I.)

My thoughts exactly. The military should leave this brave soldier alone. We don't need to know the details, and the military could get the testimony they need by spreading around some money to get the Iraqis to talk.

[TXnMA]

The debriefers have had to have gotten a hint of this, WHY is this being told now?

Ask Rita Cosby. I only reported what she was saying on Fox News.

[Alouette]

[thathamiltonwoman]

My father died when I was thirteen. I remember that day, the furneral and then nothing for months. My memory picks up again in sophomore year. I think lost or repressed memories are probably pretty common.

[halfdome]

My bad, I meant to say I first heard she kept shooting until she ran out of ammunitiion.

How is my opinion goofy? Don't you think it strange that conflicting stories kept coming out? Don't you think it strange that the press was reporting she was shot, but her parents and doctors said she was not shot?

The last I heard on the subject was from press conferences with Jessica Lynch's parents and doctors, who said she was not shot. I don't remember what channel I saw this on, but it shoudn't matter, unless you want to call her parents and doctors liars.

[Cicero]

The first concern should be her health and well being. There is plenty of other evidence against the Baathist leadership.

It's probably a matter of medical opinion whether she's better off forgetting or remembering and coming to terms with what happened, but in any case her welfare should be the chief consideration.

[mikegi]

I had a somewhat similar thing happen when I was a kid. I was riding a little cart thingie, like those an auto shop uses to slide under a car, down a driveway too fast and ended smashing my head on the bumper of a pick up truck. Anyway, I apparently got up and walked to my house next door before collapsing.

All I remember is trying to turn before hitting the truck and then next waking up on the sofa with my mother holding a cold washcloth on my head. That's it. I have no memory of walking home.

BTW, my friend's driveway was a bad place for me! Sometime later, we were playing basketball and the ball got stuck between the rim and backboard. I came up with a brilliant idea -- pick up a big rock and throw it at the ball to knock it loose. Well, I threw the rock as hard as I could and hit the ball dead on but, unfortunately, the ball remained stuck. The rock, however, bounced back and hit me on the top of my head. Knocked me out cold. What an idiot! I think I might qualify for some government program...

[Polybius]

Actually, I never understood where those stories originated. When they were rampant on TV, those who were with her during the ambush were either POWs -- or dead. And Jessica certainly wasn't talking to the press...

I certainly remember reading a newspaper account about it. I believe it may have been a Washington Post article right here on FR.

However, does anyone remember any military spokesman at CENTCOM in Qatar or at the hospitals in Germany or in the U.S. ever issuing a statement about the details of what Pfc. Lynch did or did not do during the ambush?

I don't ever recall hearing any such statement from a military spokesman.

The story may have been TV reporters quoting print reporters quoting soldiers quoting scuttlebutt.

[chainsaw]

I don't think the military would be an active part of "an end-run" around the truth about her kidnapping. This girl is/was the piss and vinegar type. Clearly she suffered abuse. Try to comprehend another senerio, please.

A story I heard, I believe it was on the G. Gordon Liddy show, is she was hanged by her feet and beaten with a baseball bat. Other indecencies, if any, were not related. She is still one of our "American soldiers too". We love her, and we wish her all the best. Viya Con Dios - Sweetheart, your going to be alright.

[Jeff Gordon]

Speaking as a formr Marine I'm inclined to believe, as I suspected early on, that ms Pfc. Lynch was taken prisoner under far less heroic conditions than portrayed by the liberal media.

I find your comment very interesting and very telling. You believe the Pfc Lynch was not taken prisoner under heroic conditions. You base this suspicion on the fact that you are a former Marine. Since that is the only fact you bring to the table I must assume that your personal experience tells you that you would have been less than heroic under these circumstances.

There are some people who can look beyond their personal experiences and realize that some people might react differently in a given situation then they themselves would react. You apprently are not one of them.

[TaMoDee]

When as a US Marine under hostile fire did you feel greatly more heroic than a US Army 19 year supply clerk?

I want the date/time of the fire fight!

[jlogajan]

ms Pfc. Lynch was taken prisoner under far less heroic conditions than portrayed

Wrong! All our POW's were captured under heroic conditions -- those conditions being that they volunteered to server our country in a combat zone.

[yooper]

"The entire Jessica Lynch story, to date, appears riddled with holes. This whole "amnesia" story just appears to me to be another attempt to make an end-run around the truth about her kidnapping."

Yeah, she probably broke her own bones, like Colonel Flagg. So what do you think is the truth about her kidnapping?

[jlogajan]

He was thinking about the Smart girl. I'd beat him up for his comments even on that, but this is the wrong thread for that.

[what's up]

Too much attention and stimulation for the young girl.

Leave her alone and in peace for awhile.

[Polybius]

Regarding Post 70:

You responded to demkicker who was responding to Duramaximus who was over-worked with 10-hour days and thought that this thread was about Elizabeth Smart....thus the term "kidnapping". ;-)

[yooper]

"The final story I heard is that she did not shoot until she ran out of ammunition..."

I would strongly suggest that you pay less attention to stories you heard and more attention to editing of your comments...

[andysandmikesmom]

The mind can be a powerful thing, often it creates amnesia in a person, so that the person can forget a trauma, that perhaps they are not ready to deal with...

My older boy died 18yrs ago this August....I can remember the whole time he was sick and how hard that was...I can remember burying him and the funeral, and everything that happened for about one week after his funeral...but everything else, from that one week forward, for the next 12 months or so, is completely lost to me...I cannot remember anything...

I was for a long time in therapy, and never recovered my memory of that time, and my psychiatrist, said, that probably I will never recover it, ,and perhaps thats just as well...apparently the mental pain and trauma, that I felt at the loss of my son, was more than I could bear...and my mind has alleviated that sharp, fresh pain, by not allowing me to remember it from that time...

Jessica Lynch should be allowed to recover her memory in her own time and in her own way, and at her own comfort level....And God Bless this young lady, may she be well, and recover...

[visualops]

Sounds like a concussion in the first instance.
My brother fell off a swing when he was little, and there were a couple of unaccounted hours before he made it home. He had a concussion, and no-one knows if he was unconcious or what lol