The Death of Pat Tillman

[Michael Dell]

Today, on August 20, director Amir Bar-Lev releases his documentary "The Tillman Story," which chronicles the U.S. government's deliberate attempts to cover up the true circumstances surrounding Pat Tillman's death in order to promote the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.For those unfamiliar with the case, Pat Tillman gave up a successful NFL career to join the Army Rangers in the wake of 9/11. On April 22, 2004, Tillman was gunned down by friendly fire as a result of gross negligence and possibly criminal action. Government officials, including General Stanley McChrystal, concocted a fake story of how Tillman died, saying his death occurred during an intense fire fight with enemy insurgents. Tillman was supposedly killed while charging up a hill taking the fight to the enemy, with his actions saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. None of it was true. Yet that's the story the government told the media and Tillman's family, including Tillman's brother Kevin who served in the same platoon. Tillman's uniform was burned and witness accounts were altered to hide the truth. It took five weeks for the government to finally admit Tillman died due to friendly fire, and even then the Army continued to lie about the circumstances of the incident. Pat Tillman was only 26 when he died, but he was a truly unique individual. I would invite everyone to please read more about the young man's life, his death, and the determined actions of his family to uncover the truth. "The Tillman Story"http://tillmanstory.com/"The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as Everyone's Political Football" by Stan Goffhttp://www.counterpunch.org/goff08092007.html"Pat Tillman: An Un-American Tragedy" by Mike Fishhttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tillmanpart1HistoryCommons.org: Death of Pat Tillmanhttp://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?tim ... at_tillman

[kenmurray]

Great stuff Micheal. The documentary should be a good one exposing this lie and cover up. Kudos to the family who never stopped until they found out the truth.

[Bob]

Indeed Michael! Also...look at this...http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/ ... .htmlF'ing Yale. I absolutely HATE that CIA recruiting college that permeates evil!

[barney 1961]

8/26/10 Great feature story on Pat Pillman's untimely and unfortunate death at the hands of his own troopers.Like the ole Marine Sergeant Major warned this old country boy, " if you got any "f---ing sense in that hard head of yours,get your young ass back in college, and stay there, there is a shooting war getting started in a place called Vietnam, which youand yours cannot find on a globe or map on your good days." " The Corp is over 2,000 platoon line officers short, so we are takinganybody and everybody with a pulse, you understand me."

[barney 1961]

8/30/10 Folks, I deeply apologize for misspelling the name of Sergeant Tillman in my prior post. I failed to notice my bad typing and badeyesight error, as this man was a hero no matter how he died in the combat zone, he went, he served, he did his duty to God and Country,so nothing more can be expected of any man or woman in uniform. Barney 1961