“When I remember those difficult days, I remember the fear, I remember the strength, I remember that hand of that fellow American soldier, reassuring me that I was going to be okay.”

— Jessica Lynch

Congressional testimony (2007)

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Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1983

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