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Forgotten female POW's story told

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 02/16/10

In helping former U.S. Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson write her autobiography, Fort George G. Meade Media Relations Chief Mary L. Doyle not only exposed the world to the plight of the country's first African-American female prisoner of war, but furthered Doyle's own budding literary career.

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TOP: Former Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, the nation’s first female black prisoner of war, was shot and captured in Iraq.
BOTTOM: Former POW Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, 30, center, is escorted by U.S. soldiers to a waiting C-130 transport plane in 2003. Johnson, whose convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed  in Nasiriyah, survived a gunshot wound to each leg and 22 days in captivity.

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"I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen - My Journey Home" hit bookstores earlier this month.

It tells the story of Johnson, a single mother from Texas who was a part of a supply detail when her company was ambushed in Iraq just days after the U.S. invasion began.

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