"April is the cruelest month"

On this day Prisoner Of War PFC Jessica Lynch was rescued from an Iraqi Civilian Hospital in Nasiriyah southern Iraq. PFC Lynch had sustained several wounds as the result of the Humvee crash that she was in when her convoy had gotten lost and subsequently ambushed. Despite conflicting reports of a gun battle and torture, there was no evidence of such harsh treatment by her captors. By Lynchs own admission her weapon had jammed and she was unable to use it to defend herself. At the time of her rescue from the Hospital, a week after the crash, there were actually no insurgent forces stationed at the hospital. PFC Lynch later stated that, they had sung songs to make her feel more comfortable. However despite the alignment of all these fortunate circumstances the National Media, and the Military Propaganda, began to spin the event into a ‘Ramboesque’ account of a real American Hero, with the intent of popularizing the unpopular conflict. Subsequent Congressional hearings made clear the White House and Pentagon manipulation.

It is clear that despite military efforts to keep quiet peripheral reports of the event, Several of PFC Lynchs` team members sustained mortal wounds in the Ambush Including PFC Lori Ann Piestewa, The first Native American woman to die in military combat. PFC Piestewa is a member of the Hopi tribe and enlisted in the military to secure an income to provide for her two children. Lori Piestewas` Father and Grandfather were former Military and veterans of Foreign Conflicts.

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary ... The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes, and they don't need to be told elaborate tales”. –PFC Jessica Lynch

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself".
—John Stuart Mill