Private First Class Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue during the 2003
war in Iraq captured the attention and captivated the emotions of
millions of Americans. Accounts of the actual events surrounding Lynch
were wildly varied as some took her to be a symbol of American
righteousness while others made her out to be a pawn of the US
military. But the Lynch that emerges in Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Rick Bragg's portrayal is an ordinary young woman caught up
in an extraordinary series of events. Bragg, who had the cooperation of
Lynch and her family in writing I Am a Soldier, Too
intersperses her war story with a detailed portrait of the diminutive
kid from Palestine, West Virginia who enlisted to see the world. What's
truly remarkable about Lynch is how relatively unremarkable she is. She
had a normal working class childhood, did fine in high school,
performed capably in basic training, made some good friends, met a guy,
and, like thousands of her contemporaries, was sent off to a war zone
in the Middle East. But the story takes a sharp turn when her vehicle
loses the convoy it was following near Nasiriyah, her four fellow
soldiers are killed in the subsequent fighting, and Lynch is badly
wounded and taken prisoner. Blacking out for three hours, she awakes in
an Iraqi hospital where the tensions of war coupled with a lack of
resources and a language and culture barrier make for a harrowing stay
even as numerous medical personnel defy their own military to protect
her and save her life. Finally, American troops captured Nasiriyah,
kicked down the hospital doors (even as hospital workers tried to give
them a master key) and airlifted Lynch out. Bragg also tells the story
of the blue collar West Virginia town of Palestine and the Lynch family
who the world watches, first as Jessica goes missing, then when she is
rescued, and finally when she returns amid much fanfare. Bragg keeps
the story telling pretty simple, avoiding an analysis of how the story
was spun or the politics behind the war itself. In the end, Jessica
Lynch is not, by her own insistence, a hero. Rather, she is a soldier
with a remarkable story of survival to tell. Thankfully, she has now
had the opportunity to tell it herself.
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