...the Tillman family needs to bear their grief away in private...it’s sad that Pat died the way that he did, but the Army is inherently a dangerous calling...every year men die in combat, die from accidents, die from illness and die from misfortune...their son decided to volunteer for a particularly high risk MOS...I don’t think that the family really understood the risks that he was accepting as a triple volunteer...Army/Airborne/Ranger.
.I don’t think that the family really understood the risks that he was accepting as a triple volunteer...Army/Airborne/Ranger. ....................................... BINGO! However the FF incident should not have been hidden. It looked like we needed a hero story at the time and the press picked it up as one. I was in a hospital bed when it hit CNN, emotionally it upset me a great deal, and the drugs they had in me made it more unbearable.