The scorn for Lynch that surfaces at Free Republic from time to time is sickening. Sanctimonious dirtbags describes them too kindly.
Kevin Tillman, too. The man did volunteer, made Ranger, and fought in Afganistan, losing his brother. But he doesn’t ‘toe the line’, so he’s attacked.
The problem with Kevin....once you start reading far and wide...he doesn’t lay an open attack about the “hero status” and the Army’s attempt to hide the episode. Kevin goes far and wide...openly attacking anything that has to do with the US military and anything they’ve done over the past four years.
Kevin isn’t your run-of-the-mill brother who weeps openly about his brother and the way that the guy had to die. Instead...he uses his brother as a “joker-card” in the deck of media play. I grew up in the south...and this type of behavior is very low. I wouldn’t tolerate a single member of my family acting this way. Every single officer and NCO at fault on that day could be brought to justice...and Kevin wouldn’t be finished. Kevin would just go onto Pat version 2.0 and attempt to find various other friendly-fire episodes.
For those who might have served in Vietnam or WW II....there are a significant number of men who died in this fashion. I don’t see congressional committees forming to discuss them. Nor do I see a committee forming to discuss General Stonewall Jackson’s friendly-fire episode. Once you stand back and see the whole forest....you understand things better.