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Not All Heros Are Men

July 22nd, 2003 | Comments Off

Jessica Lynch

Pfc. Jessica Lynch receives the Purple Heart from Lt. Gen. James B. Peake, U.S. Army surgeon general, during a ceremony at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, July 21, 2003. Lynch also received the Bronze Star and the Prisoner of War Medal. Lynch was captured during combat in Iraq and was rescued by U.S. Special Forces in April and has been in a military hospital ever since. REUTERS/U.S. Army-Brett McMillan

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Private Lynch was not the gun toting, combat maven that we had originaly speculated. She was seriously injured in combat, appears to have been questioned and tortured by high ranking Iraqis, and has now returned both to the United States, and today to her home in West Virginia. The Bronze Star is an appropriate award for this young American woman. Her response to her rescuers identifying themselves as American soldiers was “I’m an American soldier, too.” That says it all for me. God bless her, heal her, and bring her peace.

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