American - Soldier | April 26, 1983 -
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.
Jessica Lynch
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There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.
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I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
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I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
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I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.
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I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
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The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
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They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.
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The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
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There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.
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I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
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The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
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