First, the unauthorized made-for-TV bio pic. Now the tell-all book. For a $1 million dollar advance. Some folks are upset, including this savage column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Ouch. Yet despite questions over the official versions of the capture and rescue of Pvt. Lynch, and her apparent amnesia, someone has decided this is a story that must be told. Lynch has granted her first offical interview to ghostwriter Rick Bragg. Apparently she still has told no one else, including her grandmother. "We don't talk about what happened to her over there," Mrs. Lynch said. "When she wants to tell me, she will." Let's see, she hasn't been able to talk to close family members, but she can tell a former New York Times reporter? Hmmm.All the hubbub over Lynch has not gone down well with others, including the father of one of her deceased comrades. Randy Kiehl, father of deceased Army Spc. James Kiehl, of Comfort, Texas, told TV station KSAT: "Pretty severe, isn't it? That she makes money off the death of my son and off the deaths of so many others." Not to mention the professional soldiers and veterans represented on Col. David Hackworth's Soldiers for the Truth site. You should read several of the articles raising questions about the whole affair and how the readers feel about the medals being awarded in Iraq. Try:This poor young woman is a pawn, manipulated by an administration desperate for good news and callous media desperate for money and ratings. I have a modicum of sympathy for her. But I make this prediction: On the heels of the book release will come the inevitable book tour. Oh, not the common blitz of local TV talk shows, radio interviews, and newspaper reporters. No, that would be too, um, tacky. No, it will be some sensitive, hour-long "exclusive" with Bawbwah or Diane. Just so she can get "her side" of the horrible story out, you see. And timed miraculously to coincide with the book's release. Bet me this doesn't happen.
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