Thursday - April 14, 2005
Band Of Sisters
Remember Jessica Lynch? The young female Army private who was captured, tortured and finally rescued from Iraqi insurgents two years ago? The media made a big deal out of it and a TV special movie was made about her experience.
What you may not know is the story of a friend and fellow soldier of Lynch named Lori Piestewa. Piestewa was a native American of the Hopi Indians in Arizona. She was a single mother with two very small children, aged 3 and 4. She is also the only Native American female soldier killed on foreign soil. Lori was killed in the same attack where Jessica Lynch was captured.
Jessica Lynch has not forgotten her fallen sister and has quietly gone about the task of making a dream come true that she and Lori talked about many times while they were serving in Iraq .... building a nice home for Lori’s parents. Next week, Lori’s parents will move out of their battered, overstuffed mobile home in Tuba City, Arizona and into a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, with a glorious view of the San Francisco Peaks, courtesy of the popular ABC program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
How did this happen?
They were nominated for the home by Lori’s best friend, former POW Jessica Lynch, whose riveting story of capture and near death dominated the first few weeks of the Iraq war. Lynch also will be assisting in the design of the 4,300-square-foot home, which will be built during the next week by a crew of 1,300 workers from Shea Homes of Phoenix and filled with more than $65,000 worth of furniture. In addition to the new home, the ABC program is arranging for a new Navajo Nation Veterans Office to be built in Tuba City, also within the next week.
All thanks to Jessica Lynch remembering her friend and the dream her friend had .... and then making that dream come true. My hat is off to Jessica Lynch and I pray for the soul of Lori Piestewa. Honor, duty and sacrifice are one thing .... this is something else entirely. Something very few people outside the mlitary seem to understand.
Lori Piestewa
Memo: From all of us here at BMEWS .... thanks, Jessica.
Posted by The Skipper
on 04/14/2005 at 03:51 PM
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