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“I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.”

Quote by Jessica Lynch

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American soldier, famous prisoner of war during the Iraq War. Born in the United States in 1983, she joined the U.S. Army in 2001. During the Iraq War in 2003, she was captured by the Iraqi army after an ambush in the city of Nasiriyah in northern Iraq, becoming an international focus of attention. more

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