When PFc Jessica Lynch came home in July she mentioned a friend who won't be coming home, Lori Piestewa.

Now an area woman wants to help Lynch keep her friend's memory alive.

Piestewa was the first woman to die in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first Native American Woman to ever die in a foreign war.

Barb Greiner of Turquoise Village in Marietta read Lori's story in the latest Indian Arts and Crafts Association Magazine and found it so touching she wants to share it with Lori's friend Lynch.

Greiner plans to send the article to Jessica Lynch.

Greiner says, "I don't know how much Jessica knows about Lori's tradition and her background and her Hopi family. It's just something I wanted her to have. It would be a nice keepsake for her since she and Lori were friends."

In the article it says the Hopi Tribe believes when a member dies they come back in the form of moisture.

The day Piestewa's body was returned to the US, there was a blizzard in her hometown in Arizona.