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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
3. This is likely to backfire. Tillman said the Iraq war was "fucking illegal",
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 10:46 AM
Sep 2017

was an admirer of Noam Chomsky, and had made arrangements to meet with Chomsky when he got back from the war. He never had a chance to do that. He was shot in the head at close range by fellow US troops. The government tried to cover it up by initially claiming that he was killed by enemy gunfire. The clothes and body armor Tillman was wearing were destroyed before an independent investigation could examine them.

https://www.thenation.com/article/pat-tillman-our-hero/

spanone

(135,831 posts)
4. i saw that shit on his twitter account. hey don, this is a great day to resign!
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 10:50 AM
Sep 2017

trump is using Mr. Tillman, the same way the military did after his death.

despicable.

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