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A true hero.(Insider Report)
In late July, Private Jessica Lynch returned to her home in Elizabeth, West Virginia. Arriving in a Black Hawk helicopter, Private Lynch was greeted by a large and enthusiastic crowd, which included Governor Bob Wise. Lynch, declared Governor Wise, "returns a renowned international figure and a symbol of the quiet courage and commitment of our armed forces."
Private Lynch was part of a U.S. convoy ambushed in Nasariyah, Iraq, on March 23rd. Initial press accounts of the battle described Jessica firing her rifle until it ran out of ammunition; she was then supposedly overpowered by superior numbers, shot, stabbed, and taken prisoner. U.S. Special Forces subsequently freed her in a dramatic raid on an Iraqi hospital.
According to the official Pentagon report of the incident, however, Lynch's injuries resulted when her truck, traveling at 45 miles per hour, collided with the vehicle ahead of it early in the ambush. Her rifle, like those of several other members of the convoy, was jammed. ...
- EDITORIAL SAVING PRIVATE LYNCH SPECIAL FORCES' HEROISM IS CAUSE FOR...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) April 3, 2003 700+ words
ALTHOUGH there are many stories of heroism to have come from Operation Iraqi Freedom, few have gripped the nation like that of the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Just 19, Lynch was serving her country in Iraq when her convoy took a wrong turn on a highway and was ambushed. Two soldiers with
- Iraq War: The daring op that saved Private Lynch...(News)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) April 3, 2003 700+ words
...in a German hospital after being rescued by special forces in Iraq. Private Lynch, 19, was flown to a US air base in south western...decoy operation. Night-time footage showed special forces rushing her on to a Black Hawk helicopter on...
- SAVING PRIVATE LYNCH.(Editorial)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) April 7, 2003 700+ words
...hospital is one of the most uplifting developments in this war in Iraq. "Saving Private Lynch" has all the makings of a TV movie -- a CIA tip, a U.S. Special Forces unit fighting its way in and out without casualties, the prisoner rushed to...
- The press and private Lynch: the Pentagon was selling a patriotic tale. It...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Eviatar, Daphne July 7, 2003 700+ words
...would come to be known as Saving Private Lynch. Special ops had successfully...Angeles Times reported that US Special Forces endured a "blaze of gunfire...the US military, the story of Private Lynch arrived just in time. For days...
- The Ballad of Private Lynch.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Trillin, Calvin July 7, 2003 700+ words
THE BALLAD OF PRIVATE LYNCH Preferring death to getting caught...t flinch. She battled on, did Private Lynch. Or did she? Though they could...face. Or did they? By night our special forces made A daring, dangerous rescue...
- THE TRUTH; PRIVATE LYNCH There was no dramatic rescue. I didn't go down...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) November 8, 2003 700+ words
...at being used as a propaganda tool. Private Lynch was held by the Iraqis after her unit...Army claimed was a daring rescue by special forces. But Lynch said: "I'm not a hero...doctors and nurses. The military said special forces soldiers had met with a stiff resistance...
- SAVING PRIVATE LYNCH\ TUESDAY'S COMPLEX, CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED RAID BEGAN...
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) April 3, 2003 700+ words
...Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Special Forces drew up and carried out a bold plan...rundown hospital, one of whom led the Special Forces to the room where a frightened, wounded...waiting helicopter outside the building, Special Forces found two bodies in the hospital morgue...
- Private Lynch begins weeks of recovery in Washington military hospital.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) April 13, 2003 700+ words
...caused open fractures on her upper right arm and lower left leg. Lynch, who was spirited out of Saddam Hospital by U.S. Special Forces acting on a tip from an Iraqi lawyer, is believed to be the beneficiary of the first successful planned military rescue...
