Jessica Lynch Quotes
The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
Lynch, Jessica. "Statement of Jessica Lynch." Misleading Information from the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes, Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 1st Session, 24 Apr. 2007. U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007, pp. 20-22.
Mrs Shehan was trying to have a meeting with the President to ask why the nations was occupying Iraq.
Jessica Dawn Lynch is a former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and allied forces. On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Lynch was serving as a unit supply specialist with the 507th Maintenance Company when her convoy was ambushed by Iraqi forces during the Battle of Nasiriyah. Lynch was seriously injured and captured. Her subsequent recovery by U.S. Special Operations Forces on April 1, 2003 received considerable media coverage; it was the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first ever of a woman.
