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You are being disingenous.

She is uncomfortable being labeled a hero. Who labeled her as a hero? The press ran with a story that was fragmentary, and then when they got the full story, they made a story out of the fact that they ran with a fragmentary story.

People were deliriously happy for her to come home alive. That is much different from making her a hero. But she has a problem that a lot of soldiers have, she lives with the knowledge that she lived and her friends didn’t. Its important to her that people not make her into a hero. She confuses the joy that people felt at her safe return with adulation, and she confuses distorted press coverage with peoples’ actual opinions.

Actually, if you’ve ever read press coverage about anything you have personal knowledge about, you have probably noticed that they can’t even get the simplest facts right, thats stateside, with every chance to double-check their facts. Its embarrassing. When you realize that they consistently get things wrong that you know about, it has to occur to you that they get about the same percentage wrong about everything else. And they do.

You said — “You are being disingenous.”

Doesn’t look like it from the way I’m reading the story...

And then — “She is uncomfortable being labeled a hero. Who labeled her as a hero? The press ran with a story that was fragmentary, and then when they got the full story, they made a story out of the fact that they ran with a fragmentary story.”

And that enhances her credibility and makes her the *most authoritative* to talk about what happened to her (not anyone else). And thus, she wanted to “set the record straight” and she’s the one that went to the hearings to do that.

And in addition, it would have been a very simple matter for the Pentagon to have “set the record straight” in a press conference if they had wanted to correct any misconceptions. Obviously it took Jessica Lynch to do it for herself...