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[center]PAT TILLMAN WAS A HERO!!!.... PAT TILLMAN IS A HERO!!!.... PAT TILLMAN WILL ALWAYS BE A HERO!!![/center]

Quote by: dilligras Mayhaps thy standards are too high, sir..... Or you have defined the word "hero" a bit too narrowly, I suspect. Were the firemen who ran into the buildings before the collapse of the WTC towers not heroes? How about the ones that didn't die? Isn't the very choice of occupation a bit heroic, compared to most who only talk of service to one's country or community if it involves nothing more hazardous than directing cars in a large parking lot, at the next Farm Aid or NORML event? Not that there's anything wrong with that..... It's just that most would not have been looked down upon--and rightly so--if they had not made the heroic choice he made, and opted instead to get shown "the money". Tillman joined at a time when he had to have known where he was likely to end up.........and didn't hesitate to give up more wealth and fame than most will ever approach. I would suggest that there are even more heroes around you, when you are willing to give them their due..

All OK, but NOT enough. Log jam scutters from one thread to another.

One does not become a hero by being killed in combat

This is on par with "the only good injun is a dead injun". Absolute c___. So he stopped being a hero when he died? Or when the army covered up and Senator McCain got the truth? How on earth they expected to silence all the men and his brother.

It's clear this is the same crap believed by georgie porgy, the great C-in-C, with all his huge experience of combat. His only good soldier is a alive one. Dead one's embarrass. Reminds me of WHEN DID THIS MAN BECOME A TERRORIST? referring to the Israeli gunman.

3. When he fired his gun, killing the driver. If he had not subsequently died, would he still be labeled a terrorist. 4. When he died. This is my best bet. He now had no value to the State. When the Prime Minister was assassinated, I do not remember the assassin being treated as a terrorist. Was it because he survived. 5. When Sharon said he was a terrorist.

This also explains why he doesn't do funerals not even on this latest five week R&R. What about some soldiers getting R&R. On the evidence

what she encountered was an arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion, a President totally "detached from humanity" and a man who didn’t even bother to remember her son’s name when they were first introduced. The whole meeting was simply bizarre and disgusting, designed to intimidate instead of providing compassion. He didn’t even know our names," said Sheehan. "Finally I got so upset I just looked him in the eye, saying ‘I think you can imagine losing someone. You have two daughters. Imagine losing them?’ After I said that he just looked at me, looked at me with no feeling or caring in his eyes at all." more on Meeting Bush

[center]PAT TILLMAN WAS A HERO!!!... PAT TILLMAN IS A HERO!!!... PAT TILLMAN WILL ALWAYS BE A HERO!!!

IF HE WAS A LITTLE LESS A HERO, HE MIGHT BE STILL ALIVE[/center]

He may have been killed by one of his own men, but the person responsible was an office miles away more concerned about a bust Humvee than the lives of his men. Before spouting off about PAT TILLMAN's death, please read the absolute fantastic story listed by PatrickHenry from called Barrage of Bullets Drowned Out Cries of Comrades It's long, as trilling as any novel but tragic. Anyone who would believe that Pat Tillman was not a hero needs to have a log jabbed very very high up 'em. To besmirch a hero's memory for a cheap shot is the lowest of the low. I'd like to see him on a real live soldier. Are we sure he's not some stooge let loose to warm up the forum?

Isn't it opportune that this story reactivated to coincide with the Crawford vigil.

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