Lynndie England says she’s “still haunted”
More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.
Former Army reservist Lynndie England hasn’t landed a job in numerous tries: When one restaurant manager considered hiring her, other employees threatened to quit.
She doesn’t like to travel: Strangers point and whisper, “That’s her!”
In fact, she doesn’t leave the house much at all, limiting her outings mostly to grocery runs.
England tries to play the “I was just a pawn!” card. So did the guards on trial at Nuremberg and I have every bit as much sympathy for England as I do for them. That she tries to beg off on any responsibility by claiming her responsibility on this amounted to a few seconds of time that just so happened to be photographed is just so much more smoke she’s trying to blow into the air. I’m not buying it
