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  • UMass Student Apologizes To Tillman Family For Column Man Admits Article Was 'Insensitive'

    04/30/2004 6:18:10 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 48 replies · 153+ views
    Local 6 News (Mass) ^ | POSTED: 10:39 p.m. EDT April 29, 2004 | Not Provided
    AMHERST, Mass. -- A University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduate student is apologizing to Pat Tillman's family. Rene Gonzalez had written a column for the campus paper saying the football player-turned-soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan wasn't a hero -- but a "G.I. Joe guy who got what was coming to him." Gonzalez said in an e-mail to a Boston TV station that he was trying to say Tillman's celebrity had factored into his being labeled a hero. He admits he tried to prove his point in an "insensitive way" and that the article wasn't worth publishing. The school's...