I would go and fight for anybody except bush. god i hate that guy. Heck, My name "Nolan" means "Noble" in Celtic! But I dont think we should have gone to Iraq at all. bush is a dumbass and should not be re-elected

*EDIT* hehe this is the 6th page Ive started. Go me.

I just find it annoying that by spotlighting this one guy so much, that it seems to imply that the rest of the soldiers aren't risking as much. Look at the comparison,
every soldier: life
Pat Tillman: life and $3.6million

Now unless you value your life with a dollar amount, then there isn't much of a difference between what Mr. Tillman risked from any other soldier.

well here comes the media trying to make him a superman, starting with this weeks newsweek (I just got it)

Yeah, this is a problematic presentation, at best. "If he was willing to give up life and $3.6 million for his country, shouldn't you be at least willing to give up life?" What is it we, the public, are supposed to glean from all this?

If he would've survived the battle and went back to football, he would become a billionaire.

Think of it. Almost every family would say, "Look this man has sacrificed millions of dollars to protect his country! The least we could do is watch his game."

Think of the crowd he would get at his games, because he is considered a "hero."

That would be what I call "selling nobility."

I'm not saying that he's the bad man. He went off to fight, because he believed it's the right thing. Just like every other man with him on the battlefield. And for having the guts to risk your life I respect that. But it's the media that's selling his nobility by making him seem more heroic than any of those other guys that are fighting.

They're saying "he sacrificed 3.6 million dollars to protect his country." He didn't sacrifice 3.6 million dollars, he sacrificed his life to do so. Just like all the other men. So for that, he does not deserve more recognition than any of the other men.

If you mean me in anyway I think he is noble but I didn't say that everyone else isn't, and new question. Will it be blown out of preportion as much as the other one?

he doesn’t DESERVE more recognition than anyone else who decided to sign up. he GETS it because its more interesting to US.

shit, there's been stories in the local papers about locals who have died in the armed forces. And they get just as much honor as Tillman. But to the reader, it damn near baffles us when Tillman gives up what everyone in their day-to-day life is working towards. Hell, most of us can't hope to die with $3.8 million in our bank accounts, much less get that much when you're, what, 22? When that much wealth is there for the taking, and someone turns it down and goes to put his life on the line for something he just plain believes in, it turns heads. You can't argue AT ALL that Tillman was in it for the college money or because it was a better job then he had at home. To anyone who asks "why?", all the other answers dont apply to Tillman.

All the Tillman story does is illustrate the pure, crystalline conviction that is in the hearts of so many of our soldiers.

The honor that is bestowed to our soldiers is the same to all of them. But to US, us who aren't there, Tillman is the example to US. The story of Pat Tillman shows, in perfect clarity, what it is that the United States Soldier is willing to give up. The soldiers in the field, they know what they sacrifice. To those at home that don't understand, Tillman is the example to us.

Are you talking about the woman who "fought to the death", and then got captured, and "tortured" by the Iraqis?

"yea" but I'm too lazy to look it up

Well, would you risk death in another country away from your family and friends if you were presented with a multi-million dollar career, and potentially, if you were good enough, even more money? What the man did was selfless and truly heroic. Are the other soldiers heroic? Sure. But they didn't sacrifice like Tillman did.