A Famous Fight, An Unsung Hero [post request]

The Baltimore Sun (MD) ^ | September 28, 2003 | Tom Bowman

[Ex-Dem]

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Pfc. Jessica Lynch is the celebrity soldier of the Iraq war. Pfc. Patrick Miller, a member of the same company captured with her in a ferocious firefight, remains one of its unsung heroes.

Lynch, Miller and others in their convoy mistakenly drove into the vipers' nest of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, early on a March morning and were encircled by Iraqi fighters. In the ensuing swirl of chaos and shouting, wrong turns and unrelenting fire, Lynch's Humvee crashed, and she lay unconscious among her dead and dying comrades.

It was Miller, a 23-year-old Army welder from Kansas, who single-handedly took on several Iraqis, manually slamming rounds into his assault rifle and firing as they prepared to lob mortar rounds at Lynch and other soldiers from the 507th Maintenance Company.

[Ex-Dem]

This is article found by garandag. He asked me to post it because he's apparently having trouble doing it himself.

[Ex-Dem]

Oops...typo. That should read "is an article."

Anyways, here you go.