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To: American Spirit who wrote (32199)5/23/2005 1:32:03 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 93284
 
ABC's hit TV program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" this weekend will feature the show's design team building and furnishing a new home for the family of a soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The family of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a soldier who died during the opening days of the Iraqi war, recently took ownership of a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that resulted from the effort.

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Former Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch nominated Lori's family to receive the home, according to Diane Korman, coordinating producer for the Extreme Makeover program.

Lynch and Piestewa served together in the 507th Maintenance Company and were part of a convoy navigating through southern Iraq when it took a wrong turn and got ambushed by Iraqi troops in March 2003. Piestewa died of injuries received in the skirmish;