Jessica Lynch named Glamour "Woman of the Year"

[Newsjock]

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http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/132300p-118061c.html

... Among the ever-growing number of magazine-sponsored awards, Glamour's Women of the Year event stands out each year for its mix of famous and lesser-known achievers.

... Ex-POW Jessica Lynch and her fellow captive in Iraq, Spec. Shoshona Johnson, along with Pfc. Lori Piestewa, who was killed when they were taken, will be singled out by ABC's Diane Sawyer.

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U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch and U.S. Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson are shown together in this handout photograph. Lynch and Johnson, whose ordeals as POWs during the war in Iraq (news - web sites) gained national attention, have been named Glamour Magazine's 2003 Women of the Year and will appear in the December issue of the magazine. (AP Photo/Glamour Magazine, Jonathan Skow)

[qwertyMike]

1. Christ

[KCDem]

2. FWIW, Glamour runs liberal, so I'll forgive them for this.

At least Johnson made the list as well. They prob gave it to Lynch out of necessity.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. What necessity?

?

[Cocoa]

3. that's a nice picture

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Nice to see Johnson smiling

Boy, I'll never forget the still from the footage the Iraqis broadcast. The look on her face--haunting.

[RowWellandLive]

6. Love the picture!

Hope they remain friends.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Had to keep Jessica wrapped in a flag again I see.

[dobak]

8. good for them..

It is not Jessica's fault that BushCo. hyped her rescue and tried to use it as propaganda.

I am glad she made it out alive and is doing well.

[joeybee12]

9. Yeah, but she is to blame for that lousy NBC movie

they're going to show in a week or so..."the story that gave a nation hope."

I want to vomit!

[RowWellandLive]

10. The book makes me ill too

but I guess it's hard to turn down all that $$$$.

[Gman]

11. Ummm... Does Jessica Lynch really exist?

There's been a lot said ABOUT her, but not a lot FROM her. Some girl was in a parade that was supposed to be Jessica Lynch, but I'm not sure.

Does Jessica Lynch really exist, or is she just a creature created by propaganda? Does anyone actually know her?

[Cooley Hurd]

21. Maybe her real name is Jessica "Ol' Shoe?"

Straight from central casting...

[Guaranteed]

12. These are the kinds of things people looking

back at the Nazi regime pick out and respond to with, "What the FUCK were they thinking???"
I see history repeating itself.

[Voltaire99]

13. Oh, war is so glamorous

For every photo run of this agit-prop patriotism-porn pin up, that's one less we see of a legless soldier laying on a cot in Baghdad.

[teryang]

17. You are on a roll this morning Voltaire

Your comments go right to the heart of the matter.

[sujan]

14. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Laughing Mirror]

15. notice that the NY Daily News has correctly placed this story

in the business section

advance hype for the Jessica Lynch Story

500,000 copies hitting the bookstores appropriately on Veterans Day, November 11

[VolcanoJen]

16. Very important to point out that they honor Lynch AND Johnson

KCDem made the point earlier; there's no headline to this article, but it's important to point out that Glamour Magazine didn't choose Lynch over Johnson in their "Women of the Year" citings.

I'd be very curious to see who else they chose, but I'm not upset that they chose these two unwillingly-hyped soldiers.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. For what? Getting into a traffic accident in a foreign country while

on duty? Give me a break.

[trapper914]

19. Exactly

If I were a woman, I'd be pissed! According to Glamour, this is as good as it got for women in 2003?

On edit: I hadn't read the link. So at least they're honoring other women for real achievement.

[Malva Zebrina]

20. when a military person with dubious and questionable war time

achievements is named "woman of the year" by a well known, long standing woman's mag, this tells me something-it tells me more than just one thing--it is shallow, it is making money off warmongering, making war glamerous, it is ignoring women who have made peaceful and useful contributions to this country instead of shooting up Iraq on a bunch of lies. I admit it is better than naming the frump lump, but there is something sad about this to me. Yes they all make money-- Jessica also---and some say they don't blame her--I have to think about whether or not I can make a judgement on Jessica's jumping on the bandwagon--in the picture, there seems to be something sad in her eyes--and she is very young.

[arwalden]

22. What If They Chose Someone Who Actually DESERVES IT?

:barf: :barf: :barf:

[bobthedrummer]

23. A family buried their 19 year old daughter not far from where I live

she was an US Army MP killed in a mortar attack on an Iraq police station. She had just returned to duty after being wounded. Her mother tried to convince her not to join, but she kept the family military tradition alive. 19 years old. But not Woman of the year. Another post-conflict casualty.

[Desertrose]

24. We've lost 2 in N AZ...why don't they have all the women who died be ...

Women of the Year?
Why single out only the ones who survived ??

Seems to me that giving your life is above and beyond the call of duty and should at least be recognized somehow.....

(The catty side of me thought right away that Glamor gave it to Jessica cause she looked like she had mega makeup on in the rescue photos and I thought gee...you know...GLAMOUR magazine?...well...nevermind.....this is not a Jessica slam...I feel for her being caught up in something way way beyond her)

The world just ain't right anymore....

Peace
DR

edit-who keeps movong the letters on my keyboard around?

[jonoboy]

25. just a slap in the face

to the others that have died.
Imagine how families that have lost a serviceman/woman must feel.

[leesa]

26. Woman of the year for passing out?