November 12. 2003 Page A2 A Picture of Health continued / 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. “ Y ou c a n ’t be in denial when you first co n tract diab etes. I had to m ake a choice to co n trol the d iab etes o r let the d ia b etes control m e,” said S h ep h erd . “ I ’m not the kin d o f person that lets anything co n trol m e.” S h e p h e r d s a y s s h e h as learned to stay on a strict diet, and asks her d o cto rs lots o f q u estions. T his ap p ro ach has helped h era v o id taking insulin shots. She co n tro ls h er blood su g ar through m edication and diet. 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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 Comment Wanted on Bus Changes Tri Met wants to hear from the public about proposed bus service improvements in north and northeast Portland at a hearing on Monday, Nov 17 at 6 p.m. at the Kaiser Town Hall,2704 N. Interstate Ave. Interstate MAX, which will open May 1, will replace the Line 5-Interstate Avenue bus. Service hours from Line 5 will be used to improve other area bus 1 i nes. TriMet has incorporated community sug gestions and wants feedback on proposed changes at the hearing. For more information, call 503-962-5806 or go to the Internet at trim et.org/m ax/ yellowline/busstops.htm. 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. 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"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.