November 26, 2006
Pat Tillman's Family Are Not Christians
Pat Tillman was a former NFL football player who joined the U.S. Army Rangers in 2002. When he was killed in Afghanistan in 2004, the Pentagon and the Bush regime seized on his death to build patriotic support for the war, and military and political officials appeared with the Tillman family at the funeral. But the official story released to the press and told to the Tillman family—that Pat had been killed by “enemy fire”—was a lie.
Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, the Army Ranger officer who commanded Pat Tillman’s regiment in Afghanistan, conducted the second Army investigation into his death. He told ESPN, referring to the Tillman family, “I don’t know, these people have a hard time letting it (their son’s death) go. It may be because of their religious beliefs.”
Kauzlarich, (also) told ESPN.com that he thought the Army had found out who actually had killed Tillman but that he had never found out! And he said, “You know what? I don’t think it really matters… I had no issue on not finding a specific person responsible for doing it.”
...after listening to officials talk about Pat being with God, Richard (Pat’s younger brother) spoke at the memorial and said, “Pat isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fucking dead.”
article: http://revcom.us/a/070/tillman-en.html
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>related: PBS broadcast "Fog of War" http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/246/index.html
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I see books about Pat Tillman and the way Bush used his killing and the manner in which the DOD worked the coverup. I don't see a major Hollywood motion picture. Atheists are box-office poison. Maybe a video documentary at Sundance. And a play?
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