Posted by
JP on Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:41:32 AM
new @ ExileStreet
by
Richard S. Lowry [author] 3/22/08
It
is hard to believe that it has been five years since Jessica Lynch and
the 507th Maintenance Company rolled through the dusty streets of An
Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003. Eleven of Jessica’s fellow soldiers were
killed that morning, five were captured and a dozen more injured. Lynch
was critically injured and near death when she was brought into a
military hospital near the site of her ambush.
Within
hours of the ambush, the North Carolina Marines of Task Force Tarawa
moved to secure the bridges in An Nasiriyah. LtCol Rickey Grabowski’s
1st Battalion, of the 2nd Marine Regiment rolled into the city and
encountered stiff resistance. By midmorning they had rescued nearly
half of the soldiers who had been ambushed and by noon the Marines were
charging forward through a hail of RPGs, AK-47 gunfire, mortar and
artillery barrages. By sunset, Grabowski’s Marines had secured their
objectives but at a terrible cost. Eighteen of America’s finest died
and another dozen were wounded. [more]