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Remembering Pat Tillman

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, The War On Terrorism, War

Kevin Tillman writes a fitting tribute in memory of the soldier who surprised us all by quitting the NFL and joining the military after 9/11.

From TruthDig:

It is PatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voiceÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ until we get out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

I’m not going to trick you into reading the whole thing if you don’t want to. Kevin calls for a change on Nov. 7. But I think it’s significant that a guy who was an Army Ranger, who fought right alongside his brother, would ask us to vote for new leadership.

But hey, maybe that’s just me.

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2 Responses to “Remembering Pat Tillman”

Marie Says:
October 26th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
All we need is love right?RIGHT”” My son is in the Navy and I am a writer all my poetry has been stolen from the US copyright office and used by both parties Come ON . I do not feel my military elders who fought for this country deserve this (Sound like a bunch of brainwashed Irish Scientologists to me). Your with me or your not so claimed L.Ron Hubbard.
Lies that imperil us all at FactoryCity Says:
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
[...] Meanwhile, from Kevin Tillman, who’s brother Pat was killed in Iraq: Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started. [...]

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