Mary Tillman's Crusade For The Truth

[RiverStone]

Source: cbsnews.com

(CBS) Seven military investigations and two Congressional hearings can’t convince Mary Tillman that the government is telling all it knows about the death of her son, a corporal in the U.S. Army Rangers. In her first television interview, Tillman talks to Katie Couric about her son, Pat Tillman, a former NFL star, and her frustration over the way the government handled information about his death by friendly fire.

The interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, May 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

"Well, it's hard to take when we heard it was a friendly fire…. I…didn't go into immediate…'Oh, these awful men, they need to be punished,'" says Tillman. "I felt terrible for these young men…and I still do - to a degree. But I don't think it was the horrible accident that they like to play this out. I think there was huge negligence involved here," she tells Couric.

Four years ago in a canyon in Afghanistan, Cpl. Tillman, who gave up his professional football career to fight the war on terror, was killed. The initial word from the Army was that he died in an ambush trying to protect his men. It then came out weeks later that his own men had shot him. Mary Tillman has been on a crusade for the truth ever since, accusing the government of using the initial story as a publicity stunt and covering up the friendly fire incident.

She points to inconsistencies, including that his uniform was burned after his death, which is against regulations, and that the coroner refused to sign the autopsy for months because his analysis of Tillman’s gunshot wounds was not consistent with the Army’s original story.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/01/60minutes/main4061656.shtml

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Mary, I hope some day you find the truth.

[tomreedtoon]

1. When will Bill Maher chime in?

If you read his book When You Ride Alone, You Ride with bin Laden, or heard him narrate the audio book, you know he talked about Pat Tillman. He pointed out that Tillman made this sacrifice without trumpeting it, without consulting his team, and called it true heroism. He also noted that Tillman was sacrificing his sports career, and might well sacrifice his life.

Well, Tillman did give his life, and in a particularly tragic and sadistic way. I haven't heard Maher refer to this issue since. Has he said anything about the Tillman incident?

[superkia]

3. I love maher's show but I think he has to be careful about what he...

says on his show. I notice that he gets very upset because of people bothering him about 9/11 and whether or not our gangsters had anything to do with it and whenever a guest does bring it up, he turns into bill oreilly and gets loud, angry and shuts them up and moves on? I think that is a subject that he isn't really allowed to go into except to give one side of it and move on?

[leftchick]

2. Couric? Blech!

why oh why couldn't a real journalist interview her?

:argh:

[saigon68]

4. Perky Katie the NeoCon Princess

Like that POS on Good Morning America. Diane Sawyer

They feed the sheep the pablum