“I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.”
Jessica Lynch (1983) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Congressional testimony (2007)
“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”
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