Pat Tillman

Pat Tillman's mother has written a book.  Pat Tillman, of course, is the soldier who gave up a carerr in the NFL to to to Afghanistan.  He died from friendly fire in Afghanistan, after the military first allowed a story of heroic death under enemy fire to be spread.  It has never been shown that the five week delay in correcting this caused any real damage to anyone (the facts were always the facts, and it is hard to see how the family is significantly better off for the "friendly fire" facts to come out immediately, rather than five weeks later, although their anger at being initially misinformed is understandable).

The despicable AP, and AOL are publicizing today, predictably, the (minor?) part of the book that alleges that the true facts of Pat Tillman's death have still not come out.

If Mrs. Tillman were going to write a book, I would have preferred one concentrating on the type of MAN Pat Tillman was (for all I know, MAYBE that is the major part of the bok, since the despicable AP would pick out the other part--no matter how minor it was in the whole book).

Mrs. Tillman's OPINIONS on her son's death are pretty much worthless. She has no more factual information than anyone else. She DOES have more information thaan almost anyone else on the type of MAN her son was.

We know, of coure, what sells books. It is sensational "charges" that sell books, and that is too bad.

This, of course, is not a matter of "believing Mrs. Tillman". Mrs. Tillman has no more FACTUAL INFORMATIION than is available to you or I. She was not there. Her OPINION really has no more weight than yours or mine (and considerably less weight than that of an expert investigator).

People wantint to BELIEVE (the worst about the military and our governmen, without facts, merely exhibit their own agenda--nothing else.