The denouement of this sad story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050301502.html
The gist: Tillman, talented football player whose career could have generated millions, enlisted in the US military, likely for idealistic reasons. Certainly not for the promise of money for college. Served with honor in Afghanistan, but died at the hands of his own unit. Made into a hero by the Army even though fratricide was known at the moment of his death. Covered up until the story was about to bust out anyway, then exposed, but still whitewashed by the media, who feel that the US military must be supported in any damn thing they do. This story is a paragon of the deception, militarism, false patriotism and aggressive foreign military adventurism of the US in the new millenium.