oh so the military propaganda in the beginning of the super bowl about the player who joined up after 9/11 and was killed “in the line of duty” is actually so much worse than I thought because he was killed by FRIENDLY fire after he criticized the war/called invading iraq “fucking illegal” and the army tried covering up his death
His name was Pat Tillman.
Some day, on someone’s death bed, they’re going to admit that Pat Tillman’s death was a murder. I’m not saying there was some grand conspiracy to lay a hit, but someone didn’t like what he had to say and took advantage of the fog of war.
Pat Tillman was also an atheist. His family is atheist. The military and U.S. politicians who wanted to make hay out of the all-American boy giving up his NFL contract to fight for ‘our way of life’ did not like that he and his family were not Christian and refused to go along with the “Onward Christian Soldiers” narrative of the ever-increasingly-Evangelical U.S. Armed Forces.
