Hearings On Cpl. Tillman's Death

I was just reading a story about the hearings that are being held today by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee concerning the death of Corporal Pat Tillman. He is spotlighted, because he gave up a huge contract with the Arizona Cardinals after 9/11 and entered the United States Army to protect his country. His death at the hands of his fellow Rangers was concealed for 5 weeks, and everyone just assumed that he was killed by the enemy and that he was a heroic symbol. It is this focus on his death that has Washington in an uproar over when the White House knew the truth of his death, and if there was a cover-up by anyone in the Department of Defense or in the White House.

I think no matter the manner of his death, Corporal Pat Tillman is a heroic figure. In all wars the is often chaos and fellow soldiers kill each other by accident, it is inevitable, but the least that should be done is that when the truth is known, and it looks like they knew rather quickly, at least the family should be told. The Tillman's still do know the full truth of their son's death and that is not accetable. Anyone who has any knowledge of the Truth should willing come forward and tell it in the open, it does not make Cpl. Tillman any less heroic, just another tragic loss in a very real war.

Today Ex-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top former Pentagon brass denied any cover-up and rejected personal responsibility Wednesday for the military's bungled response to Army Ranger Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death in Afghanistan.

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