God bless you Pat Tillman. I wish those in charge would have told the truth from the get go. This administration always gets in front of things way too late.
Geez, I cannot believe somebody got it right. I know several guys who died "a hero" because they did something unbelievably stupid. No CO ever wrote a grieving mother, "Dear Mrs. Jones, you son died doing something very, very stupid."
"...fabricate a medal citation..."
"...divert attention..."
"...they played fast and loose with the facts..."
"...tinkering with the truth..."
"...work of fiction..."
More honestly, how about - Lies and a Cover Up?
.............and we wonder why so many Americans don't believe anything presented as truth by our elected officials and the military...........
Stonewall Jackson was killed by one of his own sentries
As was Colonel Mickey Marcus ,a Jewish American Army officer helping the Israeli Army back during its first war
There was a movie about him starring Kirk Douglas
“Cast a Giant Shadow “
According to the wingnuts at Daily[P]OS, not only was it friendly fire, but it had to covered up to hide the fact that he was deliberately assasinated. A delusion that Tillmans family is feeding through the typical vague innuendo.
The fact is that until proven otherwise, all combat deaths are assumed to be by enemy fire.
From what I have seen, this was the crux of the initial report on his death. Later, when the truth became known by his chain-of-command, they simply declined to correct the initial report. Why? For the age old reason of making the bitter pill of his death easier for the family to swallow.
There is no justice being served by this “investigation”, and the Tillman family, IMHO, is now squarely in the Cindy Sheehan camp.