Shoshana Johnson interviewed

[Catch22Dem]

I did a search and didn't find this article posted anywhere else, so here it is. Why do I like this girl so much. I don't want to say anything bad about Jessica L. but why did she get SOOOOOOOO much attention when she got back? Please don't tell me it's just because she's a little white girl. Anyway, seems like Shoshana has a real good head on her shoulders. I wish her the best. When we hear Jessica and Shoshana's stories, I think it's plainly obvious that the regular Iraqi soldiers, we no monsters.

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"I'm a survivor, not a hero," Johnson told Essence magazine in its March issue. "The heroes are the soldiers who paid the ultimate price and the Marines who risked their lives to rescue us. ... They took a chance and because they did, I'm here."
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"At first I thought it was a joke," she said, until one guard expressed interest in her "and even tried to hold my hand." After that happened, an older Iraqi guard began sleeping outside her cell door.

"He did that, I think, to protect me," Johnson said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/13/sprj.nirq.pow.johnson.ap/index.html

[Lisaben2619]

1. I thought the same thing when I saw her on Ellen

I had read some of the "news" about her and mostly, in liberal press, about the differences in how she and Jessica Lynch were treated by the mainstream. But, after I saw her on Ellen, I thought "Man, this girl's cool!" She just seems very likable.