"Jim" <eternal_dna@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3FABAF8F.2040207@hotmail.com...
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > Michael Cash wrote:
> >
> >> If I may take this opportunity to go off on a tangent...
> >>
> >> Can someone explain to me why Jessica Lynch got the Bronze Star?
> >
> >
> > Photo opportunities, television ratings, distraction from the cakewalk
> > turned quagmire?
> >
>
> According to the criteria listed on the site below, it doesn't seem
> like she qualifies.

It does seem strange considering she disagreed with the army's account of
the events.
>
> https://www-perscom.army.mil/tagd/tioh/awards/BRONZE%20STAR1.html
>
> Maybe they meant to award a Purple Heart, and mis-typed the application?
>
> Or perhaps the definition of "meritorious achievement" is sufficiently
nebulous?
>
> More than likely, whoever did the paperwork had as much of a grasp of the
> word "heroic" as the word "ironic".
>
> Maybe Alanis can do another song to explain the word "heroic" for her
> fans south of the border.

Probably not a good idea, if you listen to the lyrics in ironic she didn't
have much of a grasp of the word, which in its self is quite ironic.