[cookcounty]

" "On April 30, the Army posthumously awarded Tillman the Silver Star for bravery, stating that Tillman died in a heroic charge up an enemy-held hill. "Corporal Tillman put himself in the line of devastating enemy fire. . . . While mortally wounded, his audacious leadership and courageous example under fire inspired his men to fight with great risk to their own personal safety, resulting in the enemy's withdrawal and his platoon's safe passage from the ambush kill zone."

The truth, though, was that Tillman had been killed by three bullets to the forehead fired by American soldiers in a friendly fire ....

Enquiring minds want to know.......exactly how is the first paragraph contradicted by the sentence that follows?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Corporal Tillman put himself in the line of devastating enemy fire"

You are right, but there is the implication that the enemy did it. Why most citations are pretty general on what occurred, there is specific "meat" that typically accompanies the write up. You shouldn't have to interpret parsed words and push the rhetoric envelope to understand what happened.