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...irregulars, Army Rangers set up a perimeter around the hospital. It was a moonless night, but the stars were bright enough to guide the Navy SEALs who slipped into the hospital. Led to her room by a doctor on duty, the SEALs opened the door and asked for Jessica Lynch. At first, she was silent, a sheet pulled tightly over her head. "We're U.S. soldiers," said one of the SEALs. "We're here to protect you and take you home." She responded, "I'm an American soldier too." As they rushed her out to a nearby helicopter, Lynch squeezed...
...worked perfectly. It was like Black Hawk Down, except nothing went wrong," says Colonel Harry Warren, who heads a military hospital that took part in the mission. Indeed, no one was giddier than Lynch's family and the residents of Palestine, who shouted the good news through the streets and began instantly posting WELCOME HOME signs on the highway leading into town. But the national celebration was tempered on Saturday when the Pentagon identified the remains of nine of her compatriots from the 507th who were found in shallow graves near the hospital where Lynch was rescued. "Of course there...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...
After her capture, Lynch was transferred to the emergency wing of Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah. It was there, according to news reports, that Lynch was spotted by Mohammed, 32, an Iraqi lawyer who had gone to the hospital to visit his wife, a nurse. According to the Washington Post, Mohammed's interest was piqued by a throng of paramilitary guards. A doctor then directed him to their quarry: a young woman bandaged and covered in a white blanket. Mohammed looked on as a guard, clad all in black, twice slapped the woman. After the man left, Mohammed sneaked back into...
...then who would have thought that the war's great hero thus far would be a teenager assigned to the rear supply lines? Jessica Lynch, the person and the story, defies so many wartime stereotypes that she has forced us to create a new one: the scrappy, indomitable, steely soldier chick. Liberal feminists I know who reflexively opposed this war woke up changed women the morning that Lynch's exploits were described in the Washington Post. "I hope she blew them all away," one told me, her surging sense of pride and solidarity trumping her lifelong abhorrence of firearms...