Jessica Lynch
Jessica Lynch
Jessica Dawn Lynchis 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 making her the first woman to be taken POW in U.S. Military history. Her subsequent recovery by U.S. Special...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth26 April 1983
CityPalestine, WV
CountryUnited States of America
I think I provided a way to boost everybody's confidence about the war,
I think we've definitely made progress over there.
I think a lot of people expected me to come on and be much more involved in every single issue that included the university, ... But you have to realize that this is the first time we had done this and I had to remain a more silent type to really learn and develop an understanding of how things work.
We never really found a true solution to the R1 issue. We said we're going to enforce it more, but that doesn't solve the problem that you're trying to fight bad behavior with a law that singles out students and tries to keep them from living somewhere, ... Until we start talking about solutions and not treatments, it's going to be an issue again whether we like it or not.
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.
There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.
Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said this morning when she called she was real high-spirited, she was able to talk a little louder, and she was excited.
Somebody needs to start speaking for us and I'm hoping that's what the next liaison does. Now that we have a working understanding of city government, let's change it,
Right now we are really not supposed to talk about that subject, you know, ... It is still an ongoing investigation, and we can't talk about nothing like that.
She taught me to be a stronger person. She was so strong herself that it kind of rubbed off, ... I feel that's why those nine days in that hospital -- that's why I got through it. Lori was there. I could feel her giving me strength to keep going.
Nobody has told us not to talk about it. Our main concern is to get Jessie back on her feet in good health right now.
They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.
It was extremely hard. It will always be emotionally hard.
It takes a brave bunch of people to risk their own lives to go in and free a hostage, ... We didn't even know she was captured, you know. Last we knew she was just missing in action.