From: J. Barlow [mailto:[email protected]]
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Subject: SVO-10/26/09-PAT TILLMAN'S DEATH --- THE COVER-UP
SVO-10/25/09-PAT TILLMAN'S DEATH --- THE COVER-UP
Unraveling the truth about Pat Tillman's death
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Sunday, October 25, 2009
Comment by Clint O'Connor on Where Men Win Glory By Jon Krakauer Doubleday,
385 pp., $27.95
Pat Tillman, the football star who enlisted in the Army following the 9/11
terrorist attacks, became a four-star tragedy.
Hailed for his unselfishness in a profession dominated by pampered prima
donnas, Tillman, a hard-hitting safety for the Arizona Cardinals, left the
cushy NFL life to become an Army Ranger. When he died in battle in eastern
Afghanistan in 2004, he was 27. The White House and Pentagon went into PR
overdrive selling Tillman as a hero slain by the Taliban in the global war
on terror.
Then the facts started trickling in. Tillman was killed by members of his
own unit. Horrible as that was, friendly-fire casualties are not rare. The
real dagger to the denouement of Tillman's life was an elaborate, cynical
cover-up that lasted years and racked up hundreds of lies.
Do not read "Where Men Win Glory" sitting near sharp objects. It can fill
you with outrage: The soldiers who were with Tillman were instructed to lie;
the soldiers who killed Tillman were told to lie; the autopsy was tainted;
evidence was burned.
Jon Krakauer, the gifted writer who has tackled rugged individualists in
"Into the Wild" and "Into Thin Air," deciphers the lies and the liars in his
new book.
Although sluggish in the early chapters, it becomes a fascinating account of
the betrayal of Tillman by the very people he was serving. Krakauer's
extensive research paints a frightening picture of military hierarchy. Three
separate investigations of the incident were riddled with falsehoods.
"It might be tempting to regard Tillman's resounding alpha maleness as his
Achilles' heel, the trait that ultimately led to his death," Krakauer
writes. But "the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a
function of his stubborn idealism -- his insistence on trying to do the
right thing."
Krakauer arrives at such insights through interviews with Tillman's widow,
Marie, and access to the Ranger's diaries and computer entries.
Football provided Tillman many rewards -- a college degree, a high-paying
job, an enviable life -- but he kept hearing a nagging inner voice. "These
last few years, and especially after recent events, I've come to appreciate
just how shallow and insignificant my role is," the California-raised
Tillman wrote on the eve of enlisting.
He was hardly your typical jock. He loved to argue politics and philosophy.
He loved to read. The one thing Tillman was not seeking from his Army
experience was publicity; he turned down all interview requests and refused
to become a media mannequin. He feared, however, that if he was killed in
action, the Defense Department would exploit his death. He was right.
Tillman was caught in an ancient truism, notes Krakauer, succinctly stated
by Aeschylus more than 2,500 years ago: "In war, truth is the first
casualty."
O'Connor is the film critic of The Plain Dealer.
To reach Clint O'Connor:
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CNN: 10/26/09
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/26/afghanistan.chopper.crashes/ind
ex.html?eref=igoogle_cnn> DEA personnel, embassy staff among 14 dead in
Afghan copter crash
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/26/bergen.afghan.war/index.html?eref=igo
ogle_cnn> U.S. is losing Afghan war on two fronts
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.violence/index.html?eref=igo
ogle_cnn> Death toll rises to 160 in Baghdad bombings
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