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A New Woman in Combat. Not!
Jessica Lynch turned out to be a soldier worthy of the uniform, but not, as we were told she was, the poster child for women in the military. Hers was a great story when it broke. She was Sgt. York and Audie Murphy in skirts (although she mostly wore combat fatigues), spraying fire at the enemy with the ferocity of a warrior on fire....
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War vs. Democracy: Untold Stories from the Lynch / Tillman Hearing
What does it mean to be a nation at war? Is it possible to exercise democratic control over a wartime government that dismisses honest criticism as unpatriotic? What should citizens do when members of their military not only commit crimes -- as happens during every war -- but also rely on propaganda to hide mistakes and to embellish or even create victories, as happened in the cases of Army Ranger Pat Tillman and Private Jessica Lynch?...
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The real story Fabricating inspiration in a time of war
When an American Army Ranger is killed by another American soldier in a firefight in Afghanistan, that is called "friendly fire." And friendly fire can be so embarrassing to the top command that it may have to be kept secret from the family and from the world... full story...
Shauna Rhone: War machine grinds others besides Pvt. Lynch
Shoshana Johnson, who was captured along with Jessica Lynch and four other soldiers, was another unlikely hero who was pushed through the war machine...
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Tillman, Lynch: Truth a Casualty
The Army also lied in 2003 when it famously said Pfc. Jessica Lynch - who was seriously injured in an accident when her military convoy was attacked during ...
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They Don't Need Another Hero
While President Bush vetoes a bad Iraq funding bill with the pen of a real hero's dad, Rep. Henry Waxman holds hearings into what happened to Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch. The contrast speaks volumes.
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Why the media shunned Jessica Lynch
Last week, Jessica Lynch, America's media sweetheart in 2003, testified before Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform beside
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Jessica Lynch Meet Justin LeHew
The most famous army private in America has now truly earned her heroic accolades but not on the battlefield. Don't get me wrong, I believe that any soldier who survives Iraq is heroic and worthy of our love and admiration, it's just that Jessica Lynch wasn't any more or less extraordinary than the average grunt -- until she spoke out before Washington's power elite on behalf fellow soldier Pat Tillman.
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Did US use neutron bomb in Battle of Baghdad?
The American public still doesn’t know that there was a Battle of Baghdad because the media-military apparatus constructed the Private Jessica Lynch mess to
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Jessica's Biography
Born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia to Greg and Dee Lynch, Jessica Dawn Lynch a former Quartermaster Corps Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army, was a prisoner of war of the Iraqi military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq who was rescued by United States forces on April 1, 2003. Lynch's was the first successful rescue of an American POW since World War II and the first ever of a woman.
Lynch, then a 19-year-old supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company (based in Fort Bliss, Texas), was injured and captured by Iraqi forces after her group made a wrong turn and was subsequently ambushed on March 23, 2003 near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River northwest of Basra. She was initially listed as missing in action (MIA). Eleven other soldiers in the company were killed in the ambush.
On April 24, 2007 she testified in front of Congress that she never fired her weapon and was knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed. She woke up later in an Iraqi hospital. She blamed the media and the military of lying for their own gain. She said during her testimony, "They should have found out the facts before they spread the word like wildfire."
A Poem for Jessica
This Poem was posted on the Jessica Lynch Forums and touched me so much I had to include it on the Main page, it was written by 12 y/o Candice Malone of Virginia
Dear Jessica this poem is for you.
An American hero
Jessica from what I hear you are really cool, I also hear you want to be a teacher at an Elementary school.
You left your country to fight in danger, you were trying to free people who were filled with anger.
You are now all over TV you have become an American hero, when I compare you to any superhero in the world you win 10 to 0
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