Zitat des Tages von Jessica Lynch:
I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.
Honesty has always been very important to me.
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.
Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters... on that aspect, no.
