JESSICA LYNCH HONORS FALLEN COMRADE

(03/24/2007)

Lynch and Piestewa (right) pose at Fort Bliss, Texas the day before their deployment to the Middle East in this February 2003 photo The West Virginia infant - Dakota Ann Robinson - daughter of Wirt County native Jessica Lynch, was one of 400 who gathered yesterday at the foot of an Arizona mountain named after her mother's best friend, Army Spc. Lori Ann Piestewa, a native American. It was the fourth-annual memorial sunrise service honoring Piestewa. Lynch gave her daughter Piestewa's middle name. Four years ago on March 23, in the first week of the war in Iraq, the 507 Maintenance Company was ambushed and pushed into a firefight. Eleven were killed, including Piestewa. Survivors were taken prisoner and later released. Lynch was rescued.

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