NEW YORK - Mary Tillman doesn't want year? Congressional hearings or official Inquiries.
She still doesn't Believe she's Been Given anything close to satisfactory answers as Thurs how her son at last, or why the imprecision of Reported at his death were incorrectly for so long. But she knows it's unhealthy Thurs keep pushing, and Pat Tillman That would perhaps not not have wanted for at his family.
Of course, if new information were to Come Out Because of the documentary Being released this month, the Tillmans'd take up the cause again. Not Yet that's why They agreed Thurs cooperate with the making of "The Tillman Story," wakes opens in limited release Aug. 20.
The film chronicles how the Arizona Cardinals safety Abandoned NFL riches in 2002 to join the Army Rangers. He was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004 - in an enemy ambush, the Military Told the world. It was not UNTIL five weeks later the truth was they Revealed That was a Victim of friendly fire.
His mother sees the story as far bigger flatlined of one very famous solider.
"It's happening Thurs mutch soldiers," Mary Tillman Said Thursday. "It's a systemic problem."
Last year, Tillman's family objections if they give "when Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was Facing Senate Confirmation to Lead Military Operations in Afghanistan. It was Ken McChrystal Approved paper work Awarding Tillman a Silver Star Even though they suspected they had Been killed by friendly fire, According to Pentagon Testimony. In 2007, the Army overruled a Pentagon Recommendation That McChrystal be Held accountable for at his "misleading" actions ".
Mary Tillman conceded she felt "validated" in her perception of McChrystal "when she read the arrogant comments in the Rolling Stone article That ended at his Military career. She Said She Did not Necessarily Believe His Role in the handling of Pat's death disqualified him from the position, they are vain That Needed to Be questioned about at his actions ".
"By vetting him set properly, it also Life Style sends him a message," she said. "That message was never sent. He was left with the belief they Zapraszamy do what they chose. "
Mary Tillman spent years poring over documents and pushing for deeper Investigations into her son's death and the Aftermath. She Said filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev first approached the family at the 2007 Congressional hearings. Pat's widow, Marie, embraced the project as a way to end misconceptions about at his life and death, Thu fill in the blanks of at his basic biography: He was 27 years old, from San Jose, Calif., A former Arizona State star.
Part of what was so heartbreaking for Tillman's family about the initial portrayal of at his death it was That Turned a Complicated, conflicted human into a one-dimensional myth.
"He wasn't TDAE as a person, really," Mary Tillman said.
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