Word: jessi
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...went every year until she left for the Army," said Dee Lynch, Jessi's mother. "She would meet her friends--everybody knew everybody. It's just a little county fair. You could sit at one end of the thing and watch your kids play at the other end. It never changed...
...ping and rattle of the rides and games reached all the way to the parking lot as Greg Lynch pushed Jessi's wheelchair toward the glow of the midway, over ruts that jostled her legs (which had been repaired with a metal rod and screws), her pieced-together arm and her back, which had been realigned with metal plates...
...this war, its first name and memorable face. "But there's other soldiers with names and faces and families just like us," says her mother Dee Lynch. "I hope people don't forget. They need just as much prayer and support as us. This is not just about Jessi--it's about all the soldiers...
...Greg Lynch grew up half a mile from here, in the house his great-grandmother lived in. He picked out the spot for his future home when he was 11 years old. "We raised three kids in four rooms, and we were happy and content," Dee says, "but with Jessi's disability, we just knew there was no way." When they learned their daughter was alive but in a pretty broken state, they debated what they were going to do when she came home. "We talked about building her a room downstairs, with a bathroom," Dee says. There were neighbors...
...phone quiets down, they will have a chance to write the next chapter. It is something of a relief that people are starting to take the signs and banners down; the one over the courthouse was delivered to the Lynches as a souvenir, blue with yellow ribbons, proclaiming JESSI IS FOUND. PRAISE THE LORD. REMEMBER OUR REMAINING TROOPS. Greg Jr. is still on active duty, and they view his deployment as inevitable. "He'll get his part in all of this," his father says. "You don't like it, but he's got a job to do. Every...