Photo by Bob Gathany / The Huntsville Times
Pfc. Jessica Newey with her mom, Rachel Gentle, is ready to return to duty after recovering from head wounds suffered in Iraq.
I sat on my couch this morning drinking my coffee thinking about what I needed to get done on my two days off before heading back to work. After eating breakfast, I picked up our Huntsville Times newspaper off the coffee table to read the latest news editorials especially seeing that my main hobbies are writing,blogging and soon to be pod casting "if" there's a letter that needed answering I would do so. After opening the paper to see the day's headline my jaw hung open the Huntsville Times actually had the courage to print a story about a pro-Iraq soldier who was injured in Iraq but is now healed and ready to return on it's front page making it the main headline. Grant that this paper doesn't come near the infamous New York Times that also had to admit success was taking place in Iraq but clearly it is another branch of the DNC propaganda machine. However,Iraq success stories like this they've printed mostly buried but at least they reported them where as most media outlets either didn't ,downplayed them or twisted them to suit their liberal agenda.
Here's the link to the story if it doesn't work you can read it underneath.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1189156887305610.xml&coll=1
Injured soldier 'ready to get back out there'
Friday, September 07, 2007By NIKI DOYLETimes Staff Writer niki.doyle@htimes.com
20-year-old hurt in Iraq receives hero's welcome
Pfc. Jessica Newey may have gotten a hero's welcome home, but the small American flags and red, white and blue balloons made her homesick for another type of family in another kind of world.
Newey, a soldier with the Alabama National Guard's 128th Military Police Company, came home Thursday after leaving a military hospital in Fort Bragg, N.C.
I'm proud to be home, but I'm ready to get back out there," said Newey, who was wounded in Iraq two months ago.
The 20-year-old Huntsville native received head wounds when roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades struck the military vehicle she was in.
Newey was evacuated from Iraq and taken to Germany for treatment.
Her arrival here was a pleasant surprise to her mother, Rachel Gentle. Newey had been scheduled to go home for a few weeks, but Gentle got a call Thursday morning that her daughter had plane tickets for a flight to Huntsville later that day.
Gentle said her daughter has been faring well, with the exception of occasional bouts of nausea caused by the head injuries.
"I'm confident that she'll get the best possible care now that she's home," Gentle said.
Newey was deployed last October and spent nine months in Iraq as one of 100 soldiers in the 128th who were training Iraqi volunteers to become police officers.
Newey told The Times last year that she wanted to become a Huntsville police officer one day, and she's one step closer with her reassignment to Redstone Arsenal.
Despite the warm welcome home, Newey said she can't forget the men and women she worked so hard to protect during war.
"I kind of wish I was still over there because they're part of me now."
Times staff writer Shelby Spires contributed to this report.
Hat tip: Huntsville Times
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