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Remember Jessica Lynch? Now the true story

Jessica Lynch almost became a poster-girl for her heroics in the Iraq War a while back. Daring-do was the name of the game. Many questioned the accuracy of what the US military was spinning about Lynch...and now she has spoken. It doesn't even remotely match what the US military lied said about Lynch.

"House Democrats burrowed into the histories of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch and Cpl. Pat Tillman in a hearing today, holding up the episodes as egregious examples of officials’ twisting the truth for public relations in wartime.

They received help in making their case from witnesses who have mostly shied away from the spotlight, Ms. Lynch and Corporal Tillman’s mother, Mary, and brother, Kevin, who enlisted in the Army along with him after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary,” said Ms. Lynch, dressed in a brown pantsuit and speaking softly but firmly into the microphone as more than 12 photographers clicked away in front of her.

Accounts from officials of Ms. Lynch’s bravery held the nation in thrall in the early stages of the Iraq invasion in 2003 after her maintenance convoy went astray near Nasiriya and she was taken prisoner. After her rescue, which was made into a television movie, she disputed those who said she fought off Iraqi soldiers until she was captured. She never fired a shot, she reiterated today.

The “story of the little girl Rambo from the hills who went down fighting” was untrue, she said.

Read the full report in the NY Times here.

Comments

BwcaBrownie said…
The fact that she spoke the truth in public ... pretty much makes her a hero of a different kind anyhow.

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