Where For Art Though, Jessica?

By Ian Barksdale

Greg Lynch said his daughter's memory is good, despite media reports 
that she suffered from amnesia.  

``Her memory is as good as it was when she was home,'' he said. ``She 
can still remember everything.'' But, the family has not pressed her 
for details.  

Where for art thou, Jessica? I know we will see something like "The 
Real Jessica Lynch" story on TV very soon, but when exactly will we 
hear her story? The only one most Americans can trust? Americans 
may (but most likely haven't) have heard of the Iraqi doctors and nurses, 
20 of them interviewed by an AP reporter, who was trying to corroborate 
the BBC story that sparked the controversy. They told about how they 
were fired at with guns but no bullets, they offered the commandos keys 
to doors, which were refused, as they kicked them down, crack house 
busting style. They told about the injuries which Jessica had, which 
they treated. Bruises and abrasions and other auto accident related 
trauma. Directly refuting the official story that she was in a firefight, 
and faught until the bitter end, when instead of the Iraqis killing her 
after she had valiantly killed a bunch of their comrades, they peacefully
accepted her surrender.  

More importantly, how can this young woman be in a medical hospital 
in Washington DC and not in one, if she still needs to be in the hospital 
after more than two months have passed since her injuries, back in 
West Virginia where her family would be within easy traveling distance 
to? It's impossible that her condition could allow her to fly from Iraq to 
Germany to Washington, and then somehow be unable to travel the 300 
or so miles (as the crow flies) to Palestine, WV to be cared for much 
closer to home, and with the close, emotional support of her family 
nearby. If the Washington DC doctors need assistance with treating 
Jessica Lynch, perhaps we could have a tele-conference for them with 
the doctors from the Iraqi hospital?  

``We're really not supposed to talk about that subject,'' her father, Greg 
Lynch, said during a news conference at the family's rural West Virginia 
home. ``It's still an ongoing investigation and we can't talk about nothing 
like that.''  

What is this man talking about? My daughter joins the Army, to 
become a Army of One, whatever that is supposed to mean. It makes 
me long for the marginally meaningful Be All That You Can Be. Anyway, 
she's got no hope for college, don't have the money, old story in our 
society, she goes to learn a career and gets injured in a war.  

She's supposed to have been shot and stabbed. I don't know if I am able 
to tell if she has because when I visit her in the hospital, I'm told not to 
ask about the nature of my daughter's injuries. I can't talk to reporters 
about what happened to my daughter, but I can let slip out that she 
doesn't have amnesia. She's got all the details, the family hasn't 
pressed her, which is fine. Former prisoners of war need some time, like 
any survivor of a situation in wartime is going to need some time to 
recoup mentally, that's for sure. Is there any of us out there, when 
listening to this man speak of his daughter, that does not beleive he has 
been told explicitly NOT to talk or ask questions about what has 
happened? He is telling us this as explicitly as they told him what to do. 

She doesn't have amnesia so when she is ready, she will be able to tell 
us the truth. Will that happen? Will she be allowed to let that happen? 
Will any of us know about it when she does? Will we have moved on to 
other stories to be played every five minutes on the five mintues, like 
the Saddam statue falling again, and again, and again. Then Jessica being 
saved, again, and again, and again. It's like CNN was a skipping record 
that day. Absolutely nothing else in the world happened on TV news for 
those two days.  

We've had so many of these "two days" where nothing else happens on 
TV news except what we are presented with ad naseaum for our proper 
consumption. Only eating what is good for us. A man can tell us he has 
been told not to talk about his daughter or ask questions about her and 
it will slip right through us. Our attention is elsewhere right now. 
Not in a lone, buried Associated Press article.  

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Cheers, Steve..

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