Reports came in today that Pat Tillman was shot and killed on duty in Afghanistan. If you dont know who he was, Pat Tillman turned down a 3.4 million dollar deal with the cardinals to go fight and die in iraq. My prayers go out to him and his family.
Afganastan…
but yeah, rip.
Thats crazy, I remember seeing a story on that when he left the nfl to go serve with his brother.
I remember reading about his decision to join the Army. I think he was a Ranger.
Man, I don’t know too many people that would have had the guts to do what he did. It’s a shame he didn’t make it back.
Indeed… that dude had the stones to give up 3.6 Mil & a nice lifestyle to do some of the hardest things out there. Not many people would do that as it is, much less the professional athletes of the world.
My hat is off to his memory & condolences to his family.
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
The cost of war.
And he has the gall to post this at the end of the article,
Not for reproduction without permission of the author.
He has no regard for what our goverment is trying to enforce, that these photos could be used in an inappropriate way without reagard to the families. But he does not want anyone to reproduce his stuff. Why should anyone regard him?
RIP. That is a man right there. Makes me feel like a wuss.
Bluesman -
I’m sorry, but that’s horsecr@p. The gov’t. is trying to keep these images out of the public eye because they don’t want to acknowledge the cost of war. It’s cowardly, dishonest and shames soldiers who make the real sacrifices in war when our leaders wish to pretend that those sacrifices never happened.
Pat Tillman is a hero.
GWB is a snivelling hunk of pus.
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
[B]I’m sorry, but that’s horsecr@p. The gov’t. is trying to keep these images out of the public eye because they don’t want to acknowledge the cost of war. It’s cowardly, dishonest and shames soldiers who make the real sacrifices in war when our leaders wish to pretend that those sacrifices never happened.
Pat Tillman is a hero.
GWB is a snivelling hunk of pus. [/B]
FWIW, this policy has been in effect since the first Gulf War, and maybe even before that.
Don’t make it right.
Originally posted by norther practitioner
[B]Afganastan…
but yeah, rip.
Thats crazy, I remember seeing a story on that when he left the nfl to go serve with his brother. [/B]
I know this isn’t really that relevant, but why the weird spelling? Were you trying to correct MS?Cos he was right, it’s Afghanistan.
Talk about dieing for your beliefs…
You’ve got to hand it to the gov’t types…they DID learn a lesson from Viet Nam.
The change in the minds of the people during that war was led greatly by the images of the dead coming back and the images of destruction. The protests didn’t hurt but the cargo planes with coffins coming back helped prompt people like Cronkite to change their public stance on the war.
To avoid this, the military folks learned to CONTROL what the media can see and definitely what images they can get a hold of and publish.
The first and now second Gulf War were black days for the journalism profession.
During Viet Nam and the wars before that, you had reporters travelling with troops and those were some pretty brave guys.
Now, you have most US reporters happy to go to the briefing meetings and take everything they are told as gospel.
And the pity of it is that most people do not remember that the news coverage used to be much mor in depth and questioning.
Died for nothing but his suck ass pride.
Hes not a hero, he thought he was/could be a hero. Now he is just dead.
The soldier left his house with the intent to kill
Then death is all this soldier deserves
Therefore, die
The soldier left his house with the intent to kill
sometimes your funny, sometimes your an idiot.
what the americans don’t know… is sad really.
you guys haven’t been getting “real” news at all. you would be better off getting your news about the war from outside sources.
afetr the first gulf war the enforcement of non disclosure of dead american servicemen was put in place in order to manipulate the news that was coming out of there.
Bush senior didn’t wanna deal with another vietnam where the protest at home got so hot nixon had to end that war or else there would have been a real internal crisis in the country.
Uner the Clinton administration, the rule was relaxed and the rule was reinstated under the new Bush admin.
What you really need to understand is this.
There is a site out there that you americans may or may not be able to access. It is called www.thememoryhole.org and they have been cataloguing items such as this since the begin of the attack on Iraq.
The governement is freaking about this cause it screws up their spin! Their spin!!!
Are lives worth a freaking “spin”? Holy sh.it what’s wrong with that picture???
Heres the other thing. THere was a lady who released a photo of the flag draped coffins to a paper in seattle. she didn’t do it for coin, she didn’t do it to get at teh Bushies. She did it to assure Mothers like herself that their sons and daughters were being treated with the utmost respect and dignity on their long ride back home. The lady had lost a child herself and she had empathy for those folks whose children are dying in bushies war.
You guys think your government hould be able to cancel out the relevance oif the death of your citizenry? that there is messed up lemme tell ya. That is purely an error in thinking.
Do you know that both the lady who submitted those photos and her husband were immediately fired from their jobs at maytag aircraft in Kuwait? Her husband had nothing to do with her decision to send thopse photos and now they are both a couple of more blackballed unemployment stats in the ever growing pile of em in.
People will now use those pictures for what ever reason, and yes, the left wing liberals are gonna squeeze the hell out of this.
But, just so you know. The lady who originally sent those to the paper in seattle had only the best intentions and the warmest regards for the mothers and fathers of those kids in the coffins.
regards and shame on you for defending the Bush administration. If anyone needs censuring it is those people and I’m pretty sure it will eventually happen.
Sad.
my condolences.
Xebsball
Have some god**** respect! This man had the principle to give up a life of fame and fortune to uphold what he believed in. You don’t have to agree with what he did, or with his views. But to have the AUDACITY to say that he deserved to die for his “suck ass pride” is complete crap.
You’re an immature piece of $hit and quite frankly, I hope that you get his by a bus on your way to school today.
oh and i almost forgot…
RIP RANGER TILLMAN!