Tillman was killed saving comrades

New York Daily News ^ | 5/01/04 | MAKI BECKER

[Darksheare]

Wow, the part of the story we didn't hear in the initial reports.
Personally led them BACK up the hill to provide cover for another team that got ambushed.
Some that I once knew in uniform would have taken the chance to escape while the enemy was otherwise occupied.

[Darnright]

Audie Murphy would be proud. Thank you, Pat, for your supreme sacrifice for the rest of your countrymen, and for the people of Afghanistan.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks PE. A true hero, indeed and a sad loss.

[Soaring Feather]

Hero bump. Thanks PE.

[Wneighbor]

As sad as this is, this is one death that can never be called a meaningless death. It is good to remember also that none of the others in this war are meaningless either. Many others that we never hear about are also for their fellow soldiers. And all of them are for us. For the foundational elements of this country and for freedom.

[Travis McGee]

I agree!

[VOA]

I just got/read the Sports Illustrated cover article on Tillman today; it was well done.

For further reference:
1. The militarycity.com profile on Tillman:
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/2860455.html

2. Alphabetical list of the honored dead (click on name for further detail)
for Operation Enduring Freedom:
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/enduring2.html
for Operation Iraqi Freedom (sad to say, this list took some time to load
on my aged computer)
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor2.html

[VOA]

Now I can go to school and someday I hope to become a doctor. This wouldn't have
been possible before.

Somewhere Pat Tillman, his departed Ranger brothers and other departed Coalition
warriors would humbly say:
"You're welcome".

[demkicker]

Lump in my throat bump

[Long Cut]

I fanyone's life or death needed to be made into a movie, it is Pat Tillman's.

Oh, wait, Hollywood refuses to make any Terror War movies.

They'd rather pat themselves on the back for making movies about lesbian serial killers.

[Travis McGee]

Paging Mel Gibson! Or Jon Milius.

[VOA]

They'd rather pat themselves on the back for making movies about lesbian serial killers.

actually, mistreated lesbian serial killers.
With a much, much more attractive girlfriend than anything she ever had in real life.

[BlessedBeGod]

Bump!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

In ways I am very ashamed of thinking this way but I think a lot of good has come from 9/11. For one thing it has restored my faith in the goodness of America.

I struggled with a very low opinion of this country . Even though I avoided television other than the news on occasion, every image was loaded with the bilge of Clinton in D/C, the tastless, decadence in the popular culture and the moral depravity of Hollywood and the music industry. I kept my life very small, a few friends and my immediate family.

In the first hours of 9/11 my respect, admiration and love for my country came back. The vast majority of this country are fine, loving and altruistic people. Policemen, firemen gave their lives to rescue strangers. Construction workers, volunteers slept in the street to try and assist anyone trapped and to serve the rescuerers. This is the real America not the vomit served nightly on the tube.
America is not Girls gone Wild or Jerry Springer. Those things exist but they are isolated pockets not the mainstream.

I discovered Free Republic and hung around a long time before I joined. I found witty, reasoned, passionate, decent people.

I have followed the 9/11 traffic, the culture traffic, the war traffic and I find articles confirming that this country better than I had any reason to hope.

A country that produces men such as Pat Tillman and all the other fine young men and women that devote their lives to protecting us is a testament to the core of quality that runs through this land.

They don't clammor for attention , they just act.
I am saddened by the loss of so fine a man but I am so grateful that he existed. I don't follow football, I never heard of Pat Tillman. I have been blessed that he existed and my life has been dimmed by him departing.