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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (31364)	11/12/2003 1:06:59 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

I'm guessing the abductors didn't leave it there. Jessica Lynch is "disturbed" by the army's exaggerations and lies about her story: ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, November 11, 2003 www.sfgate.com (11-11) 14:32 PST NEW YORK (AP) -- Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Tuesday she is disturbed that the military seemed to overdramatize her rescue by U.S. troops and spread false stories that she went down shooting in an Iraqi ambush. "That wasn't me. I wasn't about to take credit for something I didn't do," she told The Associated Press. "I'm not that person." The 20-year-old former Army supply clerk -- twig-thin and weary, one crutch close at hand -- described her ordeal in a Veterans Day interview seven months after the rescue made her a national hero. Reports circulated by the U.S. military early in the war said Lynch waged a fierce gunbattle with Iraqi fighters who ambushed her 507th Maintenance Company on March 23 at Nasiriyah. She has since said her rifle jammed, and she did not get off a shot. And Lynch's new book points out that, despite the "tension and drama" of the military videotape showing gun-toting U.S. soldiers rushing into an Iraqi hospital to rescue her, the hospital staff never resisted, and even offered the troops a key. "It disturbed me," Lynch said. "I knew that it wasn't the truth." Still, the ex-prisoner of war from rural West Virginia took pains to say that she does not care why the military may have exaggerated her story, and that she considers the soldiers who rescued her April 1 to be heroes. "No matter what it was, the point is that they got in there, they rescued me, and they took me home safe," she said. Lynch, who has fair skin and fine blond hair that falls to her shoulders, physically recoils when she recounts her time in the hospital, a time when her hope dwindled each day that she would see home again -- or even survive. But she said that as she lay in a bed at Saddam Hussein General Hospital, her body wracked, she decided: "I wasn't going to let myself die there." "I was determined," she said. "In my mind, I was thinking, `I've got family to get back to, I've got a boyfriend, I've got all these things to see and do when I get home."' Lynch spoke with the AP as her biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too," hit bookstores nationwide. It was written by Rick Bragg, who resigned from The New York Times after a free-lancer helped him with a story without receiving credit. Bragg was present during the AP interview with Lynch. The book describes the Iraqi doctors and nurses who cared for her as thoughtful and gentle people who repeatedly and secretly tried to see her to freedom. Lynch "lost" -- or cannot remember -- three hours between the ambush, when Iraqi troops swarmed her convoy after it missed a turn, and waking up in an Iraqi military hospital, according to the book. In that time, according to medical records cited in the biography, Lynch suffered spinal fractures and other broken bones and was sodomized. Iraqi doctors have disputed the sexual