Perhaps Jessica Lynch is a 'heroine' because she is white? Shanna/Shawna (I forget her name), the young woman who was actually captured by the Iraqis, along with other members of her supply unit, could just as easily qualify for a movie of her life and career. I may have forgotten her name but I'll never forget the terror in her and her compatriots' faces in the pictures that were released by their captors.