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“You could later hear a pin drop,” Heiney told Bragg, who would write a book about Lynch. “There was no noise, nothing.” Once the news sunk in, a few students started to cry. The community later orchestrated a candlelight vigil because in Wirt County prayers take cen- ter stage when tragedy strikes. People came from all over, crowding in front of the county courthouse and spilling into the street. Yellow ribbons knotted around tree trunks bloomed like summer daisies, all hoping for the safe return of Jessica Lynch.

Yellow ribbons of support quickly decorated trees and more in Lynch’s hometown in West Virginia.

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