Yep, it sounds like people are throwing in there, whatever they think will make a good story for PR and who cares what really happened...
“I remember seeing Dan Abrams on MSNBC admit that they had no evidence that the military had said any of the things the media was reporting. He called them “media rumors”.”
It looks like the Pentagon never attributed heroic actions to Private Lynch, the media did. Doesn't stop folks from blaming them though.