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You are misunderstanding my point. My issue isn't with the individuals, my issue was with the war time "stories" made up by the military/news. Pat Tillman was
by dntbnmpls 6y ago
You are misunderstanding my point. My issue isn't with the individuals, my issue was with the war time "stories" made up by the military/news.
Pat Tillman was killed in friendly fire. But the story we got initially was that he was killed by the enemy.
"Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal approved the Silver Star citation on April 28, 2004, which gave a detailed account of Tillman's death including the phrase "in the line of devastating enemy fire," but the next day he sent a P4 confidential memo warning senior government members that Tillman might actually have been killed by friendly fire"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Surrounding_Tillman's_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Surrounding_Tillma...
Certainly Tillman didn't spread the lies. Jessica Lynch didn't spread the lies either. It was the military/news/etc.
Hence : The first casualty of war is the truth.
> Full disclouse: I knew him personally… mostly from a distance.
Yeah, I knew him "personally" too like millions of other football fans.