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  Jessica Lynch looks back
Dec. 7: When 19-year-old soldier Jessica Lynch was captured and rescued during the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq back in 2003, it made international headlines. Meredith Vieira talks to her in the first installment of TODAY’s Buzziest Stories of the Decade.

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updated 10:29 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2008


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