Website review: Pat Tillman’s Mother on his Frien...
anneliese discovered this in Iraq Conflict
•9 reviews since May 5, 2008
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anneliese discovered 11 days ago- Pat Tillman's Mom speaks out in this Newsweek interview. Very poingnant, sad. Worth reading in full.
- Tancred rated 5 days ago
- I'm not thumbing down the story, per se, but rather the author. This was terribly written.
- michelle5928 rated 10 days ago
- When Army Cpl. Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, the story of the former NFL star who walked away from his pro career to sacrifice his life for his country became a legend. Tillman, who played for the Arizona Cardinals, and his younger brother Kevin, a minor league baseball player, enlisted in the Army after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and joined the elite Rangers. The Tillman brothers were serving in the same platoon in Afghanistan the day Pat was killed during what was reported to be an ambush near the Afghan-Pakistan border. At first the Army reported that Tillman, the highest-profile soldier to die in the war, had been killed while leading the charge against enemy fighters. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, one of the nation's highest combat awards. Within weeks, though, the Army reported that Tillman had in fact been killed by friendly fire, the result of a disastrous decision to split his unit into two convoys so that one could tow a disabled Humvee through a treacherous canyon road before dark and the other could proceed to its mission in a village suspected of harboring Taliban fighters. The convoys became separated and one was ambushed, causing soldiers to start firing. Tillman was shot through the head by fellow rangers as he tried to approach their position to help. Since his death, Tillman's family in San Jose, Calif., led by Kevin and his mother Mary, have accused the Pentagon of covering up the facts after spending years piecing together the events that led to Tillman's death and the delay in reporting the friendly fire. A series of Army investigations revealed that top officers, including a three-star general, misled Tillman's family and the public about the circumstances of Tillman's killing. During a congressional hearing last August, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied a cover-up but said that he felt "terrible" that accurate reporting about Tillman's death "was handled in a way that was unsatisfactory and that caused a great deal of heartache for the Tillman family."
- Easthambob rated 11 days ago
- Why she feels Americans should be outraged.
- yamaska rated 11 days ago
- This is every mother's nightmare...
- akapearlofagirl rated 11 days ago
- `They Were Lying' Mary Tillman spent years piecing together the details of the friendly-fire death of her son, former NFL star Pat Tillman. Why she feels Americans should be outraged.
- thematadaor83 rated 11 days ago
- Should we look at this as an isolated incident and as a friendly fire casualty of war, do we take in to account his life before enlisting as an probowl footballer, not to mention he was a ranger or do we also include the wider war on terror? Did the military lie to Mary Tilman to echo the idea that our cause is just and that the safety of our military is at first priority? Why is this tagged under Iraq when he dies in Afghanistan?
- DickBeldin rated 11 days ago
- When a government lies to its people, it can expect that the people will lie right back.
- Putback rated 11 days ago
- What "cover-up"? We've known that it was friendly fire from about a week after the news of his death hit. War is hell, lady.
