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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:01 PM
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16. While compiling the names of the casualties, I noticed something
and this is straight from the Department of Defense website, which identifies the casualties whenever they are found/identified.

Those POWs returned not long after she was "rescued" were from the very same convoy and the very same attack (3/23/2003, one of the bloodiest days for the US in the "Operation Iraqi Liberation" war).

Guess that Army Spc. Shoshana Nyree Johnson, 30, of El Paso, Texas, may have had some insight into what happened to Jessica Lynch, which didn't jibe with the "blood, guts, and glory" story that was painted for JL.

Also noticed was that the other "brouhaha" over a KIA dealt with everybody's favorite mountain namesake, Army Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz. Same convoy, same convoy attack. JL nearly gets the TV Movie of the Week, Piestewa gets a lot of animosity posthumosly for somebody wanting to honor her.
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  - While compiling the names of the casualties, I noticed something  zbdent   Aug-05-03 08:01 PM   #16 
 

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