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I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.

— Jessica Lynch

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Source: On reports of her fighting fiercely until captured. She was actually unconscious because of her injuries in a rocket grenade explosion and subsequent vehicle crash. BBC News (7 November 2003)
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