DOUG
Atheist, former football player for the Arizona Cardinals, and Afghanistan war hero Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in 2004. The family was not told the truth about what happened to Pat Tillman. There was a cover-up. The truth finally came out many months later.
Pat Tillman's brother Kevin also served, and now that he has been discharged from the military he is speaking out against the war. Brutally and honestly.
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It is Pat’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 voice… until we got out...
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.
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See here.