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/ did not shoot, not a round, nothing ... / went down praying to my knees.
— Former POW Jessica Lynch
Former POW says Military Manipulated Story
from Front
and the feelings o f helplessness
associated with many serious
illnesses.
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h erd . “ I ’m not the kin d o f
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Jessica Lynch
calls actions
wrong and hurtful
(AP) — Former prisoner of war Jessica
Lynch said the U.S. military was wrong to
manipulate the story of her dramatic rescue
and should not have filmed it in the first
place.
The 20-year-old private told ABC’s Diane
Sawyer in a "Primetime” interview that she
was bothered by the m ilitary's portrayal of
her ordeal.
“They used me as a way to symbolize all
this stuff," she said. “It hurt in a way that
people would make up stories that they had
no truth about.”
She also said there was no reason for her
rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed.
“It's wrong,” she said.
The former Army supply clerk suffered
broken bones and other injuries when her
maintenance convoy was attacked in the
Iraqi town of Nasiriyah on March 23. U.S.
forces rescued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospi
tal April 1.
Early reports had Lynch fighting her at
tackers until she ran out of ammunition and
suffering knife and bullet wounds. Military
officials later acknowledged that Lynch
Former U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch (left) and Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, both former POW's in Iraq, attend the
14th Annual Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards Monday in New York. (AP Photo)
pened quite like that,” Lynch said.
do,” she said.
I did not shoot, not a round, nothing ... I
ated in a U.S. helicopter. Then, Lynch said,
utility vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled
she felt, "M y God, this is real. I’m going
But she praised the soldiers who rescued
grenade and crashed into another vehicle.
went down praying to my knees. And that’s
her. “T hey’re the ones that came in to rescue
Lynch told Sawyer she was just in the
wrong place at the wrong time, and that her
the last I remember." Lynch said she was
terrified and feared for her life during hertime
home.”
Footage of the rescue was aired repeat
edly on television networks reporting how a
that they did what they did. They risked their
gun jammed during the chaos. “I’m not
in the Iraqi hospital, and didn’t believe she
special forces team bravely fought into and
lives. They didn’t know, you know, who was
about to take credit for something I didn't
was being rescued until she was being evacu
out of the hospital. “I don’t think it hap
in there.”
wasn’t shot, but was hurt after her Humvee
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me. Those are my heroes ... I’m so thankful
Seattle Civil Rights Group TXirns 90
National NAACP
leader address
local chapter
(A P)— National NAACP Presi
dent and CEO Kweisi Mfume joined
members of the Seattle chapter last
weekend as they celebrated 90 years
of pressing for social change.
More than 600 people — includ
ing King County Executive Ron
Sims, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels
and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-
Wash. — packed the Mount Zion
Baptist Church for M fum e’s 45-
minute speech.
He recounted
the history of the
civil-rights orga
nization, from its
1909foundingin
aNewYorkCity
apartment build
ing to today’s Kweisi Mfume
1,700 branches across the country
and other parts of the world.
“W e’ve come a long way and
some things have gotten better,”
Mfume said. “But today is a matter
of what we do now and what path
we take.”
Hecriticizedeffortstocurb affir
photo by
mative action, questioned the ex
pense o f o ccu p y in g Iraq and
warned listeners not to buy into
political rhetoric in the 2004 presi
dential election.
"The truth is, not every Repub
lican is our enemy and not every
Democrat is our friend,” he said.
"W e need to measure people by
what they do, not what they say.”
The struggle forequality contin
ues, he said.
“Ninety years is long enough to
recognize that we can’t do it alone
and with one organization,” he said.
"W e ask that you come and work
with us.”
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
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Police investigate a serious injury accident involving a motorcycle and a car Sunday afternoon
on Northeast Graham Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Christopher Frazier, the rider
of the motorcycle, was transported by ambulance to nearby Legacy Emanuel Hospital. He was
in fair condition Tuesday.
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Starvation case
blamed on
eating disorders
(AP) — The biological children
of a Trenton, N.J. couple charged
with starving their four adopted
sons say the boys, who weighed
no more than 45 pounds each, had
eating disorders and were never
denied food.
Raymond and Vanessa Jackson
say they want to regain custody of
the boys.
"We want our children back,”
Raymond Jackson told CBS News
in an interview to be aired W ednes
day on "60 Minutes II.”
The African-American couple we would have, like, the same meals.
was charged with aggravated as W e’d eat breakfast lunch and din
sault and child endangerment after ner together,” the Jacksons' bio
their oldest adopted son was found logical son, Raymond, said.
One o f the couple’s biological
scrounging through a neighbor's
trash looking for food. The boys, daughters, 29-year-old Renee, said
ages 9 to 19, each stood no more her parents put an alarm on the
than 4 feet tall and weighed 45 refrigerator to stop the 19-year-old
pounds or less when they were adopted boy, Bruce, from gorging
himself. She said the eating disor
found by authorities.
The case outraged state officials der led Bruce to eat garbage and
and neighbors, and led to the firing chew on wallboard in the house.
“I know he used to go through the
of nine child welfare workers who
were supposed to be supervising trash before he even came with us,”
said Le Rae Jackson, another of the
the children’s care.
In the interviews with CBS an couple's biological daughters.
The Jacksons have said the chil
chor Dan Rather, family members
stood by their claim that the boys dren were underdeveloped in part
because they were bom to alcohol
were well cared for.
“We would eat together. I mean. ics and drug users.