Comments on: Mary Tillman Wants The Truth

By: heidi schlossberg

heidi schlossberg — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:49:30 +0000

Mary,
I just wanted to tell you to keep your eye out in the Almaden Times. I am writing an editorial about the destruction of special ed since you left Bret Harte. I didn’t realize what you were going through when you were Rebecca’s teacher since I had just moved here. I want you to know I really appreciated that you tried to help Rebecca. I have often thought of you through the years. I watched the documentary. You and I are alike in that we both could never let a lie stand. Thankyou for standing up and doing what you had to do for Pat. I cannot imagine the strength it required. My thoughts are always with you. Heidi Schlossberg

By: Richard Kerry II

Richard Kerry II — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:00:11 +0000

I have watched and read this Pat Tillman saga from the start. I agree with Mary that this issue isn’t so much about Pat, as it is about all of us. Specifically, the liar’s club that makes up the great circle and intrigue formed by the military echelon and the White House. Today’s blog, my own (www.cybercandor.blogspot.com) comments on Mary’s mission, specifically the epic documentary, “The Pat Tillman Story,” which I hope I did not, in my impassioned remarks, walk in hers or anyone’s mind with my dirty feet. I would like to pass her message on, as well as endorse this documentary, to as many people as possible. Sometime last month I wrote a series of blogs about the military and its lame operations, even featuring Pat’s saga (in part). After watching, yesterday, the documentary, well, it was so overwhelming I had to write and say something. It is the only way I can vent, and of course maintain my humanity by not jumping through the screen every time I see the generals, especially Rumsfeld and Cheney, et al., and twisting their damn ears off. These people do not hear, they do not see, but talk. I am not a religious person, but I think if the Christian sense of a devil exists on this planet, then it spends time going back and forth from the White House to the Pentagon.

Mary, keep up your impassioned crusade, for Pat’s sake, for all of our sakes. It is the ignorance of this country, this military, that his tragic death has become so iconic. Nothing can replace him, yet the inspiration he and you and your family give to the rest of us, simply sine qua non. Just wanted you to know in case this humble and grateful message ever gets to you. RK

By: Rebecca Austin

Rebecca Austin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:24:30 +0000

After veiwing the film The Tillman Story I was full of emotions. Anger towards our government who betrayed thie family and all Americans with the lies and cover ups and worst of all the public display of a family and nations greif of our lost son. To use the death of this man as pulic propaganda is unforgiveable and may those who so cowardly denied their knowledge and involvement suffer the same fate in their lives someday. Where is the pride of this government ? When did our leaders lose sight of our trust in them to do the “right thing” no matter what. THAT is the rule of our nation and supercedes any of the military “good ole boys club” rules.
From one woman to another, your dedication , strength, hope, courage and perserverence to uncover the truth, words can hardly express my admiration for what you must have endured and the gradtitude to you for the inspiration to others to find their inner strength to be steadfast on their path to let the truth be told.
As a mother, I feel the pain of losing a son and the lifetime of grieving the loss of his presense and the love you carry in your heart for a son who gave you his love and admiration, joy, laughter, tears, heartache and pride. Even though a death of a child is to be your own personal journey we are a grateful nation of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wifes, sons and daughtersl to have had the honor to share in greiving the loss a son of our nation Patrick Daniel “fuckin” Tillman. Thank you for your story. Godspeed!

By: Eve Swartzentruber

Eve Swartzentruber — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:36:16 +0000

I had to put Mary’s book down several times while I was reading it. I was horrified, but not suprised at the Bush administration. I wanted to contact Mary after reading it, but do not know how to contact her.
I would have liked her son very much if I had met him. Every mother wants their son to be a man like he was.

By: Gary Rintel

Gary Rintel — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:07:08 +0000

The Gardner and Callimachus replies are more unfounded then the “ignorant” democratic-leaning views they admonish. I don’t know you’re site, but Donklephant is also wrong to use Mary Tillman to smear Cindy Sheehan. Yeah, I get it. Both wings are ludicrous, but only you– the difference splitters– are calm and rational enough to see the truth. Please! You want evidence? I can see destroying forensic evidence like Tillman’s boots, uniform and socks (plus ballistics) to cover-up friendly-fire. But why would they get rid of his diary, which reportedly contained views questioning how sincerely the army went after Bin Laden in Tora Bora (so as not to interrupt the bogus march into Iraq)???

Perhaps the fact that he was planning to come stateside for a meeting with Noam Chomsky in the months before November’s election, could be the motive behind such a risky act. After all, he wasn’t a typical soldier without access to the media. He was a national hero, with first-hand experience in Afghanistan. But you partisans pretending to be middle-of-the-roaders won’t even show this comment, most likely. Or you’ll demand more evidence than this admittedly-limited speculation. Well, just like my inability to prove how many Democratic votes went unrecorded in Ohio (due to Secretary of State Blackwell and Diebold at. al. not doing a thorough recount, sharing the source code or even preserving any verifiable-evidence for historians) or the White House destroying emails, yet never naming who exactly came up with the list of the fired US attorney’s (clue: Rolly Kove) the theme is always the same. Destroy the evidence and then scream and cry, hoping that the ball-less Dems are afraid to lose their “credibility.” by making the charges publicly and demanding sworn testimony. Sadly, however, the Democrats and even The New York Times, refuse to even mention Tillman’s diary, so its people like Mary Tillman who are forced into a quandary that only triples her already-terrible suffering. Concede its only a case of suppressed friendly-fire (thus ending any chance of a REAL investigation by Congress that puts Rumsfeld’s minions under oath ) or say out loud what they know will be called unobjective and overly emotional. Its bad enough for her to endure what she has had to face from this group of White House criminals. But the Democrats in Congress will always unfortunately settle for the small victory (afraid of the counter-attack on their credibility). Perhaps if they focused on what Princeton’s Prof. Ed Felten, R.S. Magazine’s RFK Jr., and HBO’s documentary “Hacking Democracy” have already demonstrated, the reason why Bush ordered Gonzo to press the grand-total of 88 supposed democratic voter-fraud cases, will be obvious. He wanted to give ammunition to water-carriers like Rush Limbaugh, when the charges of a stolen re-election inevitably were raised in books and magazines. MIT and Johns Hopkins statisticians estimated that the odds Bush got 3 to 5% more than exit polls showed he would in 9 battleground states in 2004 were 40 million to one. But hey, let’s see the evidence, cry the so-called middle-ground smarties. I wonder what you would have said to blast Democratic-leaning skeptics when the missing eighteen minutes of Nixon’s Rosemary Woods’ “accidentally-erased” White House tapes were discovered in 1972.

By: Betty Lindstrom

Betty Lindstrom — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:11:20 +0000

I too would like to contact Mary Tillman or her son to offer my appreciation and support for their bravery in not giving up in their quest for truth. If anyone knows how to contact them, please send the information to me at bettylindstrom@msn.com. Thanks.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:48:23 +0000

Does anyone know how to contact Pat Tillman’s parents,
please e-mail me at germanajl@hotmail.com

-Aaron

By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » Update On Pat Tillman’s Friendly Fire Case

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:43:52 +0000

[...] The last time I visited the story of Pat Tillman’s tragic death was to highlight the plight of his mother Mary Tillman. You see, she is the anti-Sheehan. Not because of politics, but because she’s somebody who has asked important questions free from the rhetorically dishonest pattern that Sheehan so easily fell into. [...]

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:53:50 +0000

I have no doubt that certain fringe Dems will pick this up and run with it in a very bad way, but those of us who can separate the wheat from the chaff see that the government is wrong here and needs to fess up.

In short, tell the Tillman family the truth. Anything less is wrong.

By: Callimachus

Callimachus — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:59:55 +0000

Irony, my friend, irony. I meant to write “Shrubbie KKK McChimplerburton the Death Merchant.” Read a little Democratic Underground and you can pick up all kinds of lovely tags. My favorite recent one was the woman whining that her Republican friends were so mean to her because they complained about their high taxes in her presence, even though they knew she was a Democrat. It made her so mad! Except all through her post, she never used the word “Republicans,” only the DU-approved “rethugs.”

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:18:37 +0000

It turns out that Tillman was very anti Bush and the Iraq war and that may be why he was killed (fragged) by US troops in Afghanistan.

Yeah, stuff like this only cheapens the argument, but lies do breed these sort of thoughts.

Shrubbie McChimpler

Ha! Never thought I’d hear that from you. Too funny.

By: Callimachus

Callimachus — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:24:20 +0000

The Pat Tillman story deserves to be told in full. It seems part of the problem was incompetence among commanding officers -- hardly a new thing in a war.

Spc. Russell Baer, a soldier pinned down by gunfire on the hillside near Tillman, told the Chronicle that commanding officers were to blame for the friendly fire because they split the platoon and ordered it to leave a secure location in favor of a region known as a Taliban stronghold. "It was dumb to send us out during daylight," said Baer, who was honorably discharged from the Rangers earlier this year.

The story is getting a very different spin, however, on the left:

It turns out that Tillman was very anti Bush and the Iraq war and that may be why he was killed (fragged) by US troops in Afghanistan.

Fascinating. And of course if there's never a scintilla of evidence produced to the effect that that was so, it will just be more proof to numnskulls like the one who wrote that, that it's because Shrubbie McChimpler with his incompetence/omnipotence, managed to cover it up again. When you lie to the people, you only strengthen the paranoid.