‘I’m still standing’ : Ex-POW recalls depression, guilt
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Johnson, 37, a former Army specialist from El Paso, was shot and wounded in both legs when her vehicle convoy came under intense enemy fire on March 23, 2003, in An Nasiriyah, Iraq.
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“I just really wanted to set the record straight,” Johnson said in a recent phone interview from California, where she launched a book promotion tour. “You hear a lot of different versions of what happened from people who were nowhere near there.”
Iraqis captured Johnson and five others in the Army’s now deactivated 507th Maintenance Company, formerly stationed at Fort Bliss, in the early stages of the United States-led invasion of Iraq. Eleven servicemen and women attached to the 507th died in the ambush.
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Johnson reminds readers that she has never felt resentment toward Lynch, a friend who still stays in touch. Johnson suggests she was driven away from the Army, months after her capture, by other soldiers who resented her POW status and often wanted the unit to feel ashamed for being ambushed.
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