Pat Tillman's Private War Analysis

Almost everyone in this entire world has an idol or role model they look up to, in this case many who were fans of the Arizona Cardinals knew Pat Tillman and enjoyed to watch him play. Pat Tillman was one of the finest football players who started out in High School and kept it up on college. When he decided to enlist in the army in 2002 after the nine-eleven events, he turned over million dollar contracts and finished his last season of football. Tillman and his younger brother Kevin were appointed to a mission in Afghanistan; then Mary Tillman, mother of Pat and Kevin, received the most tragic news that Pat Tillman accompanied only by O’Neil had died in an enemy encounter. However, there are still mysterious information to be revealed about …show more content…
When Mary Tillman received the news on the death of his son, she and her daughter-in-law, Marie, knew that Pat’s wishes were not to have a military funeral and even signed a contract where it stated that he did not want the military funeral, like Marie says “he didn’t want the help of the military.. those weren’t his wishes”(Amir Bar-Lev 3). Yet, the military still wanted to greet the Tillman family with their help on the making of the funeral. This was just not necessary, why would the military feel the urge to make a memorial, even more, to be televised so that the people around the U.S. could see that the they were thoughtful on all his accomplishments as a celebrity and ranger. They informed the family that he “died in a firefight with the Taliban as he charged up a hill”(Lee) and made it the official story. This made sense although the autopsy that was performed on the body of Pat did not agree on the information given by the