I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the Pat Tillman controversy, especially if you are a sports fan. If not, Pat Tillman was a Safety in the NFL playing for the Arizona Cardinals when he got inspired by the events of 9/11 to join the armed forces. He was made into a sort of a false martyr, the public and his family being told he died in a skirmish with enemy forces in Afghanistan, when the truth is he was killed by friendly fire. The generals made Tillman into a glorious example and covered their ineptitude to train their soldiers not to kill good guys…
The mother of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former NFL player killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in April 2004, on Tuesday rejected the latest explanation from the U.S. military about her son’s death.
“It became very obvious early on that they were lying to us,” Mary Tillman said on ESPN Radio’s “Dan Patrick Show.” “They were only telling one side of the story. They weren’t telling the other side.”
The military reported Monday that nine military officers, including four generals, will face “corrective action” for making critical mistakes in the aftermath of the Army Ranger’s death.
An investigation by the Army’s inspector general and Criminal Investigation Command concluded officers in Tillman’s chain of command knew almost immediately after his death that he had been killed by fire from his own platoon, but that information was withheld from his family for more than a month, in violation of Army regulations.