flynn23 wrote:
] ] Capt. Hornbuckle's name has never appeared in a newspaper
] ] or on television. He has received no book deals, no movie
] ] offers, no trips to Disneyland. In September, when he
] ] went to see his parents in Tifton, Ga., his mother called
] ] the local Holiday Inn and asked the manager to put her
] ] son's name -- he goes by Zan -- on the hotel marquee.
] ] That has been his most public recognition so far.
]
] I thought I was going to be sick when the ads for the TV movie
] of Jessica Lynch were airing last week. But this makes me more
] sick.

we of the biltmore house were just discussing this last night... the commoditization of jessica lynch, using her as a diversion from the sacrifices being made, still, by thousands of our countrymen, serving, captured, dead or wounded. I'm not saying i don't want to honor her, she fought in a war i wouldn't have, and with honor, as far as can be told, but for fucks sake, could americans have *less* perspective?

sick is what it is. i think she feels a bit of this herself, from what i'm reading. one can hope.