Pfc. Lynch's rescuers had no shovel, so they dug up the remains of the others with their bare hands.

The article also has some additional details on ther rescue:

"Jessica Lynch," called out an American soldier, approaching her bed. "We are United States soldiers and we're here to protect you and take you home."

Peering from behind the sheet as he removed his helmet, she looked up and said, "I'm an American soldier, too."

Damn, Pfc Lynch just gets better every damned day.

I heard on FOX this morning that she apparently asked her folks if her capture "made the local paper".

A Hollywood screenwriter (and I know this because, due to the fact I have an agent, I am one) could not have written a better line if he had tried.

If this doesn't become a feature motion picture (with Bruce Willis leading the SEAL Team) then Hollywood is beyond redemption.

Oh, it will become a movie. But Pfc. Lynch will be an Arab American woman, torn by doubt. The family will be anti-war throughout and will use her capture to try to mobilize America to throw GWB out of office. The SEAL team will be brutal and criminal in their treatment of everyone, including civilians in the hospital. There will be an attempted cover up of the brutality, going all the way up to the president himself. The movie will end with Lynch, unable to be silenced, testifying before congress to make sure those evil SEAL bastards pay for what they did to innocent women and children.

And it will all be "based on a true story."

Hollywood IS beyond redemption.

Bob

Such a movie, Bob, would bomb big time at the box office.

That wouldn't prevent it from being made. My example was ham-handed satire, however Hollywood has shown repeatedly that they will put politics above box office.

Example, Clear and Present Danger was one of the best selling novels of 1987. However, when made a movie, the producer and director said that they had to change the story extensively because the book was "too Republican" (their words) and needed to be changed.

Do some digging about the true story behind the movie Erin Brokovich if you think the phrase that "based on a true story" means anything beyond "someone with that name lived once."

Well, Bob, I've been told by various sources that Sarah Michelle Geller (aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer) seems to be in the running to play the title role in "Saving Private Lynch."