I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren’t a lot of jobs. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn’t in the right place. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters… on that aspect, no. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
Since coming back from Iraq, there’s been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
There’s soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things… We don’t need to create them. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
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. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
I don’t come from a rich family – it’s not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn’t have a ton of money. Jessica Lynch Read Quote
