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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:04 AM
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Piestewa's strength 'rubbed off on me,' Lynch says
Mar. 23, 2005 04:48 PM

As the sun crept over a saguaro- and wildflower-studded mountain named after her best friend and fallen comrade - Army Spc. Lori Piestewa - former POW Jessica Lynch was awarded a warriors medal of valor.

The Native American Veterans Council presented the award to Lynch on Wednesday as part of a ceremony to honor Piestewa and mark the two-year anniversary of the ambush of the women's unit in southern Iraq.

"She was a very strong-minded woman," said Lynch, a former Army supply clerk from West Virginia. "Her strength rubbed off on me." Lynch and Piestewa served together in the 507th Maintenance Company from Fort Bliss, Texas. They were roommates there and tentmates in Iraq. Piestewa died and Lynch was captured when their unit was ambushed March 23, 2003, near Nasiriyah.

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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:38 AM
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1. Lynch donated all book proceeds
to a fund for Peistewa's children. These are two amazing women.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:50 PM
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2. I think the real Jessica Lynch...
...has turned out to be far more interesting than the fake one the Pentagon tried to pass over on us.
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Midnight Rambler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 02:50 PM
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3. I remember seeing her on Letterman way back
She basically said in the most polite terms possible that the whole media myth about her was bullshit. And she managed to do it with class.
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