Posted on 07/25/2007 3:18:06 PM PDT by prisoner6
(KDKA) PITTSBURGH Former POW Jessica Lynch is taking on a new cause that's near and dear to her heart: helping children.
Lynch was thrust into the national spotlight in 2003 when, as an Army private, her convoy was ambushed in Iraq and US troops rescued the then 19-year-old from an Iraqi hospital.
Now, as a new chapter of her life unfolds, the new mother and college student is launching a campaign to help raise money for West Virginia University Children's Hospital in Morgantown.
Lynch is launching a new fundraising effort, called "Jessi's Pets," which will donate stuffed animals to patients at the hospital.
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prisoner6
No it isn’t.
Jessica Lynch... the anti-Lindsay Lohan.
I happened to see part of a TV that showed how Jessica Lynch worked with the “Home Makeover” (?) TV show to build a nice new house on the Navajo Resevation for Lori Piestewa’s parents and children. I thought that was a terrific gesture.
Do they come with a leash?
prisoner6
So it is.
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