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The Civilian Jessica Lynch

#1 jessefan

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Posted 08 February 2004 - 09:38 AM

Miss Lynch did not like being used to "symbolize all this stuff."
But there is a whole lot nicer set of stuff she is also being used to symbolize. I hope she likes this kind.

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The story of her desire to carry on and achieve her dreams of international surfing success has now turned her into a sort of civilian Jessica Lynch (the soldier captured in Iraq), a nation's wounded heroine, a symbol of grace under pressure, a phenomenon.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0...1140756,00.html