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...truck "just busted"--and she and her sergeant were stranded. For a few bleak heartbeats, it looked as if her little girl's fear was real. Then a humvee swerved off the road, and the driver beckoned to her. "Get in." It was Private First Class Lori Ann Piestewa, her best friend. The sergeant hopped in another truck, and they rolled on. A Hopi from Arizona who had been Jessica's roommate at Fort Bliss, Texas, Lori was recovering from an injured shoulder and had been given the choice of whether or not to deploy with her unit to Iraq...
...after being shot and stabbed was just a myth. The truth: her convoy was attacked; her legs were broken; and she was dramatically rescued days later. Lynch was no war hero, but she inspires by giving credit to others--to her rescuers and to Private First Class Lori Ann Piestewa, Lynch's best friend, who died that...
...does not call herself a hero, because the word hurts too much when so many died, and her best friend's body was pulled out of a shallow grave on the hospital grounds by the same commandos who rescued her. That friend, Lori Piestewa, is her hero, for staying so calm under fire, as are the soldiers who fought bravely all around her. Lynch herself did not fire a shot and spent most of her time in the humvee huddled in a protective ball. Ask her what she would like to symbolize, and there is a long, long pause...
...clerk, keeping records, ordering toilet paper. She thought it would be good business experience and steady, safe. "They told me I'd never probably see the frontline area," she says. It was at Fort Bliss that Lynch found her soul mates: her boyfriend Ruben Contreras and her roommate Lori Piestewa, best friend and protector. Lori was a Hopi Indian, the single mother of two. "We were completely opposite people--two different worlds it seemed like we came from," Lynch says. "But we clicked. She was like my sister, the big sister that I never...
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