Mother's persistence leads to investigation
"Patrick Daniel Tillman, 27, died on April 22, 2004, when he was struck by gunfire during a firefight along a canyon road near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The Army said at the time that the barrage of bullets came from enemy fire. A report by the Army later found that troops with Tillman knew at the time that friendly fire had killed the football star. Officers destroyed critical evidence and concealed the truth from Tillman's brother, also an Army Ranger, who was nearby, the report found. More than three weeks after a memorial service in San Jose, Calif., the Army announced on May 29, 2004, that friendly fire rather than an enemy encounter caused Tillman's death. However, even at the time of the memorial, top Army officials were aware that the investigation showed the death had been caused by an act of "gross negligence," the report said".It's always about the cover-up. The Pentagon just could not allow the true story of how Pat Tillman died to get out into the public. America's number one war war hero killed by friendly fire was not the story they wanted told. To the Pentagon the true story was their worst nightmare and because they tried to cover-up what really happened that day, there's now going to be the fifth investigation into Pat Tillman's tragic, but accidental death by friendly fire.
