The Truth About War – Jessica Lynch
Truth, they say, is like fire. It burns. Well it almost burnt the Pentagon. Suffering from unnecessarily being called a ‘hero’, this girl realized that she couldn’t carry the load of a lie; that she couldn’t take what the story woven around her was intended to point.
19 year old Jessica Lynch, as a clerk in 507th Maintenance company was supposed to have fought bravely, before being abducted by Iraqi soldiers in 2003. She was supposed to have been abducted as a prisoner of war. She was supposed to have been raped anally and borne all kinds of tortures (that tells how cruel Iraqis are/were). She was supposed to have been rescued. She was supposed to have been a Hero. She was supposed to have lost all memory of torture.
All the suppositions were backed by the great leadership at the Pentagon. Books were written on her, and people who were supposed to have helped in rescued wrote the books and became prominent figures.
Unfortunately, she choose to be a different kind of Hero. The hero, who tells the truth. And when her truth came that showed an ugly side behind a war, the theory behind a war, the theory behind the highest form of conceit – “asking people feel great morality in the act of killing people”
Jessica Lynch, gave a congressional testimony, in the USA, that Pentagon had lied about her bravery and bravery of all those who rescued her.
All she knew was she didn’t fight anybody because her gun was jammed even before she opened fire. She went down praying. That she was taken care of well in Iraq. That a nurse even sang to her to help her sleep.
There were also stories going around that a sympathizer put her in vehicle and drove towards Americans to give her away, only to be welcomed with gunfire (the sympathizer had to run back to the hospital).
But as Jessica Lynch said to the Congress, “The truth of war is not always easy to hear but it is always more heroic than the hype “. True. It is still heroic, that people in Iraq still want to live after what has happened to them. It is even more heroic, that people of America still want to believe their Pentagon.