- Jan 7, 2002
- 12,755
- 3
- 0
OK, this is NOT an IRAQI thread, but about the medal of honor. I honestly did not know that a woman had already received one many years ago, but...
Should Jessica Lynch be the 2nd ever to get one? The first woman to get it (Ann Walker) was a doctor in the Civil War.
Ann Walker Link
The Army nominated Walker for the Medal of Honor for her wartime
service. President Andrew Johnson signed the citation on Nov.
11, 1865, and she received the award on Jan. 24, 1866. Her
citation cites her wartime service, but not specifically valor
in combat.
link to lynch's story
Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting March 23, one official said. The ambush took place after a 507th convoy, supporting the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, took a wrong turn near the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"She was fighting to the death," the official said. "She did not want to be taken alive."
Should Jessica Lynch be the 2nd ever to get one? The first woman to get it (Ann Walker) was a doctor in the Civil War.
Ann Walker Link
The Army nominated Walker for the Medal of Honor for her wartime
service. President Andrew Johnson signed the citation on Nov.
11, 1865, and she received the award on Jan. 24, 1866. Her
citation cites her wartime service, but not specifically valor
in combat.
link to lynch's story
Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Lynch, a 19-year-old supply clerk, continued firing at the Iraqis even after she sustained multiple gunshot wounds and watched several other soldiers in her unit die around her in fighting March 23, one official said. The ambush took place after a 507th convoy, supporting the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, took a wrong turn near the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"She was fighting to the death," the official said. "She did not want to be taken alive."