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    Jessica Lynch

    Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

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    Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983) is an American teacher, actress, and former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a private first class.

  2. Nov 10, 2003 · After months of secrecy and media diversion, now we know that former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch was brutally raped by Iraqi thugs, shortly after she survived the horrific ambush of her 507th Maintenance Unit in Iraq.

  3. Aug 24, 2022 · West Virginia native Jessica Lynch is recorded as the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since world war 2 and the first ever of a woman. Lynch joined the military after graduating high school in 2000 and deployed to Iraq in 2003.

  4. Aug 1, 2023 · The loss Jessica Lynch can’t escape has little to do with her captivity and nationally televised rescue in the earliest days of the Iraq War. It’s the lost friend she dearly misses.

  5. Nov 2, 2021 · Eighteen years after she was captured by Iraqi forces on March 23, 2003 — at age 19, becoming the first American prisoner of war and first woman to be rescued since World War II — former U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch has learned to cope with physical and mental scars, as all veterans do, she told veterans at the Sgt. Simone A. Robinson Military Wom...

  6. Private First Class Jessica Lynch was a 19-year-old U.S. Army supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company based in Fort Bliss, Texas. While stationed in Iraq, she was injured and captured by Iraqi forces on March 23, 2003 after her convoy was ambushed near the city of Nasiriyah.

  7. Nov 2, 2023 · Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch told her audiences to persevere despite whatever obstacles they face during her visit here. Lynch, now a substitute teacher in West Virginia, is the first...

  8. Apr 1, 2013 · Ten years after her dramatic rescue as a prisoner of war in Iraq made headlines, Jessica Lynch continues to persevere in the face of injuries and survivor’s guilt related to her ordeal.

  9. Jessica Lynch is a former Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army and a former Prisoner of War. On March 23, 2003, she was injured and captured by Iraqi forces after her unit was ambushed in Iraq.

  10. Sep 19, 2013 · Jessica Lynch is a former POW honored with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and POW medals. She was rescued by U.S. special forces on April 1, 2003, from an Iraqi hospital in Nasiriyah, where she was being held.

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