Jessica Lynch

An epitome of gallantry, name Jessica Dawn Lynch will perhaps strike a chord in relation to USA's invasion of Iraq, in 2003. She was a part of it as a Private First Class (PFC) in the US Army Quartermaster Corps. For more on this former PFC and a war hero, read on.
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'Little Girl Rambo' Jessica Lynch Decries Us Propaganda
The former US private Jessica Lynch today condemned what she said were Pentagon efforts to turn her into a "little girl Rambo", and accused military chiefs of using "elaborate lies" to try to make her into a hero of the Iraq war.

Rambo Image Was Based on Lie, Says Us War Hero Jessica Lynch
Tale of heroics was untrue, Congress hearing told - Dead corporal's brother says military misled public

'Scars Show Iraqi Captors Raped Jessica Lynch'
Jessica Lynch, the American soldier held for eight days during the Iraq war, was raped by her captors, according to an authorised biography due for publication next week. The book, I Am a Soldier, Too, says that scars on her body and her medical records show that she was sodomised during...

Private Lynch Signs $1m Deal
Jessica Lynch, the US army clerk whose rescue by special forces produced America's most patriotic moment of the Iraq war, has signed a $1m (£636,00) book deal. The story of Ms Lynch's capture near Nassiriya, after her company took a wrong turn and crashed, and her rescue from an...

How Jessica's war brought the reality home to US public
It has been called Bush's war, Rumsfeld's war and Tommy Franks's war. But, for a while in recent days, the war belonged to a 19-year-old called Jessica Lynch, from West Virginia.