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MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (August 19, 2005) -- Harley Davidson motorcycles roared through the hallways of Pendleton Hall and bellowed down the streets of the depot while Marine veterans cruised down memory lane Aug. 12. Seventeen former Marines from the Leatherneck Motorcycle Club, California Chapter, came from all over the state to witness recruit graduation and walk around the base where many of them trained decades before. To be a part of the Leatherneck Motorcycle Club, one must first be an active duty, reserve, or honorably discharged U.S. Marine or Navy corpsman who has served with a...

<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) &#8212; Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war who became a national hero when Special Forces rescued her from an Iraqi hospital, has been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, her lawyer said yesterday.</p> <p>"She is not a member of the military anymore," Stephen Goodwin of Charleston said.</p>

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Jessica Lynch, the badly injured U.S. Army private and prisoner of war who was retrieved from an Iraqi hospital by American commandos, has been honorably discharged from the military, paving the way for her to tell her story directly to the public. "She's been medically retired" due to disability from injuries, Beverly Chidel, a spokeswoman at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, told Reuters. Publishing sources told Reuters her discharge will allow Lynch, who became a controversial symbol of American patriotism during the war, to seal a lucrative publishing deal to tell her story and...

Aug 27, 2003 Former POW Jessica Lynch Honorably Discharged From Army By Allison Barker Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Former POW Jessica Lynch, the petite blonde who became a war hero when special forces rescued her from an Iraqi hospital, has been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, her lawyer said Wednesday. "As of the now, she is not a member of the military anymore," Stephen Goodwin of Charleston said. Lynch, 20, suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries when her 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23. Her rescue...