Mark Madden, a local sports talk guy, mentioned something about Tillman a couple of months ago. Madden, who broke the Penn State story and the Dolphins story before anybody else, claims that Tillman wanted to kill and joining the military was his way of fulfilling that fantasy. Madden claims that Tillman is not the hero many would claim. It’s a pretty huge claim to make to be untrue, but . . . I don’t know.
I would imagine that quite a few men who joined the military after 9/11 did so because they wanted to kill some radical Muslims. But, as to your comment, Pat Tillman isn’t here to defend himself, so I don’t see why you would see fit to mention this. He went and (voluntarily) did some very dirty work for this country, and for our way of life. Lost his life doing it, in fact. If that’s not a hero, I don’t know what is.