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Summary: Hypocritical
Review: I can't believe Jessica says she wants her privacy when she has not said no to being on numerous talk shows, Magazines, Letterman and the Glamour awards. Her actions are very hypocritical. If she feels like the other soldiers deserve the attention then why is she taking all of it? I don't think she's a bad person and I certainly feel for what she went through but she is profitting off the backs of dead soldiers. That's the bottom line. She needs to step out of the limelight and go back to her private life...
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Summary: Why are you slamming the book?
Review: THis is a great book it took a lot of courge to help write this book. She shares her feelings about her friend dieing and not having her around no more. By the way to those who say that she does not mention the soldier that save her they did not want her to know who they were they just simbly said it was our duty. Otherwise she would have put them in the book. In the book you see what she had to go through she takes you through the early years of her life and through boot camp and what she had to deall with there. She even includes what was going on with other people such as her parents point of view and ruden. Also if people watch the interview on tv she stated that she was not a hero but just some one that was saved from war. Also she is building a houses for kids who parents serve in the army. Jessica went through a lot and is doing a lot. I mean the girl went to the army so that her college could be paid for all she wanted to be is a kingard teacher.
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Summary: Terrific book -- terrific soldier
Review: This is a great book by a very talented writer and Jessica Lynch is down home real in every way. She neither sought nor wanted the limelight that engulfed her during and after her rescue.She was inspiring in her candid interview on Primetime Live TV and her story is just as inspiring in this book. Jessica makes it very clear throughout the book that "hero" credit goes not to her, but to the brave men who rescued her from the hospital, occupied just a few hours before their arrival by the Fedayeen. She further expresses gratitude to hospital Iraqi personnel who tried to save her. Jessica IS a hero just by going to Iraq and being in harm's way -- as are all military personnel deployed in war. A book worth reading and a young lady worth emulating.
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Summary: hog wash
Review: Send her back and let her sit in a field office manning something instead of making a mockery of thw whole thing - on Veteran's Day no less. Go vist a VA hospital her in he use and talk to some good old vets. Share the booty with the families of and children of those killed in action. What next - the Flynt photos - did she sell those herself as well
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Summary: A Hero? What About the Rescuers?
Review: The only reason this gets a two is because this poor girl is now the subject of possibly unwanted media attention. One minute she's in Iraq as a POW and the next minute she's being used (yes, used) to strengthen government propaganda. Question: why didn't Bragg throw together a book about the soldiers who rescued her?! I can't tell what's sillier: Lynch being made into a hero or the possibility of Larry Flynt publishing the topless photos of her. You could find better things to do than read this book. Now, go ahead and disapprove of my review! Be a hero!
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Summary: A real shame. Propoganda at best.
Review: Jessica happened to be in the wrong place at the right time. It's as simple as that. This book is nothing more than a propoganda piece about Jessica. Who is the real hero in this story? Not Jessica. This book should have described the folks who died trying to save everyone else. Passages read as if she actually did something--she didn't. In fact, she was in the Humvee crying while others were taking bullets. This is a real shame that a barely articulate woman has received such fan fare. The nude photos of her are probably more interesting than her ridiculous story...Save your money.
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Summary: An honest review
Review: Take the book for what it is, an honest account of her experience. I don't know why all these over reviews are slamming the war and using the Jessica Lynch book to talk about their opinion of the war. Remember, this is a book review, not an essay. It is easy to sit back and criticize the war and her book when you are sitting safe and warm in your home. Jessica, on the other hand, is going through physical therapy to try to be able to walk down the aisle at her own wedding. Injuries she received serving her country. Give her a break people! Everyone loves free speech until they hear something they don't agree with. Don't criticize Jessica for being honest about how she feels about her experience. She praises the soldiers who rescued her and sets the record straight that she was not the one firing her weapon until her capture. I appreciate her honesty and good morals in setting the record straight.
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Summary: A Good Story
Review: Perhaps I will be the only one to rate this book five stars, but there it is. I enjoyed it. I did not go into this story for anything political. I served in the US ARMY, a soldier and a woman. To say the least, serving in the military is a hard hard job to do. Then do this as a female and you just doubled your level of difficulty. I felt proud that a female soldier finally has a book of her own, her story from her perscpective being written down for others, maybe even other strong young women, to read. I am so thankful that here in America, we can share our opinions in freedom. I fully agree that the whole Jessica Lynch story has been used by every medium available to suit their own cause. I am so upset by that. Everyone see's things through their own eyes...and sometimes we don't see the same thing... In buying and reading this book, I simply wanted to hear her story. If she got alot of money for it, then I wish her well, and hope she makes use of the great opportunity afforded her for this terrible experience she has gone through. She does openly and right off the bat, give honor and gratitude for her unit...she lists their names right there in the first couple pages. She offers her open and honest love for her friend who did not come home. She does not ride on the backs of others, but seems to be trying to carry her own weight. Given that she is really just such a young person, given what she has gone through, I think she is doing a pretty good job. Carry on soldier.
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Summary: Are other reviewers really reading this book?
Review: Have they listened to her in interviews? Give her a break. She never asked to be thrown into the spotlight. And everyone has been spouting their opinions while she's remained silent. Now that she's attempting to tell her side, she's being questioned like she's done something wrong. War is tragic in any sense. And it's a shame that so many soldiers are giving their lives for what seems a very questionable war. This book is a well written account from someone who just wants a chance to explain their side. Want to help the other soldiers? Contact your congressional reps and tell them to BRING THEM HOME!!!
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Summary: Saving private Jessica's PR
Review: Its all very nice to tell your story, even if it ignores some of the contributions of others that kept you alive, including Iraqi doctors and nurses. particularly galling (in the movie version) is the portrayal of Sgt Riley as a bumbling surrendering nerdy coward on his knees hands in the air shaking and giving up to the Iraqis. the movie version failed in showing his true heroism in killing approximately six Iraqis setting up a mortar position. Sgt Riley deserves a battle medal for heroism, but in typical hollywood fashion, they got the story wrong to the point that even one of their own, Jay Leno called them on it. When you have the opportunity to have your story told, you also have the responsibity of making sure that the other participants in it get a fair and accurate recognition of the credit they are due.
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