Using private Lynch.(The making of a Myth)

The Christian Century | December 13, 2003| | Copyright

JESSICA LYNCH resists America's desire to call her a war hero. "They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Diane Sawyer during a television interview on Veteran's Day. "It's wrong."

Lynch grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, a town of 350 people with only one place to shop: "The What-Not Store." She joined the army because jobs were scarce, the recruiter told her she would be able to travel (she wanted to see an ocean), and the army promised to provide financial help for college. As a supply clerk at Fort Bliss, Texas, she thought she would soon ...

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