The most important thing to remember is that the Army and government lied. Lied about his death, and destroyed evidence in a criminal cover-up they used to help sell you wars based on lies that for some reason continue on with no end in sight.
"The Tillman Story; In search of Pat Tillman: Documentary shows celebrity was his own man" by Ty Burr, Globe Staff | September 3, 2010
The title of Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary is “The Tillman Story,’’ but which Pat Tillman are we talking about? The Department of Defense and the Bush administration’s? The NFL’s? His mom’s? The larger drama of the film — and “The Tillman Story’’ is as taut and suspenseful as any fictional mystery — is the way it slowly burrows through layers of public Pat Tillmans, peeling them back like onion skin, to arrive at a riddle: a charismatic young man who turned his back on celebrity to engage the world.
The film’s more immediate drama lies in the Tillman family’s refusal to let Pat be used in death as he refused to be used in life, as a propaganda chip, the gung-ho face of the Bush wars.
And as we all know those are over now.
Oh, wait, now they are Obama's wars.
The facts are these: Tillman was a naturally gifted pro footballer who, after three years with the
What would the AmeriKan newspaper know about facts?
On April 22, 2004, Tillman was killed when members of his own unit mistook him and others for enemy combatants.
Some have even said he was assassinated because he was going to be an antiwar squawk when he got back. You decide for yourselves, readers' I do not want to interrupt the service today.
The Army, however, told his family Pat had died heroically during an ambush. His personal effects (including a diary) were destroyed, the facts were kept from his brother Kevin, a soldier in the same unit, and the ambush story was embellished by Army speakers at Tillman’s memorial service and in the Silver Star citation he was posthumously awarded. The news media ate it up: an irresistible narrative of a jut-jawed all-American boy who died for his country.
Yeah, they have not shown any remorse at all, for we continue to get streams and streams of Muslim-hating war propaganda here in the papers. Just because I'm not posting as much doesn't mean it isn't there; it is why I am not reading much at all, though.
And it was all a lie....
Just like my daily copy of the Globe. Chock full of 'em!
I wish Bar-Lev had found a few other voices besides a blogger to serve as his go-to expert on military infrastructure — granted, the blogger in question, Stan Goff, has served everywhere from Vietnam to Grenada to El Salvador to Somalia.
Had ENOUGH INSULTS from the AmeriKan WAR PRESS yet?
Comments like that are WHY YOU are DYING, corporate media.
Insulting to the end, 'eh?
Well, WE WERE NOT the ONES who SCREAMED LIES about Iraq from OUR HEADLINES!
YOU DID THAT!
Otherwise, “The Tillman Story’’ is on firm ground as its inquiry slowly widens into moral disgust.
Yeah, I get the feeling every day when I reach for and open up a Globe.
Why did the Army lie about Tillman’s death as they had about the rescue of Jessica Lynch?
Yeah, and HOW MANY MORE LIES have they TOLD!??
Because war needs propaganda and propaganda needs stars: empty vessels into which can be poured marketable notions of sacrifice, patriotism, and martyrdom.
Hey, watch that last one there!!!
Sometimes these things are earned, but when they’re not, and when you have a war to defend to taxpayers, they have to be invented....
I guess that's why such an article is found in the movie reviews, 'eh?
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Then again, I was never crazy about his reviews anyway.
Set hike, soldier.
:-(
