Alberto R. (sirtitan) reviewed on 5/25/2010 + 6 more book reviews

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I prefered this book over John Krakauer's, which detailed some events in the life of Pat Tillman. I have the upmost respect for the Tillman family after reading their story. It's good to know that there are others out there who are not just sheep in society. The Tillman family appears to use rational thought in their lives, a quality slowly eroding from the American fabric of character. Their endless pursuit of the truth about their son's death is admirable, given the nature of our "democratic" government. After reading the book and the details of Pat's death, I do have a suspicion that his death may have been murder. I always like to think like a statistician, and therefore, given the facts, there is insufficient evidence to reject the hypothesis that he was murdered, most likely for personal gain for our renegade government. More than anything, I admire and now look up to Pat Tillman as a person. He was truly remarkable. He tested the limits of what a human can accomplish. Above all, he had integrity, a characteristic becoming endangered in the human gene pool. Tragically it was his integrity that implicitly lead to his death. I don't know many humans who would reject a $7 million+ NFL Contract in the middle of an Army Ranger contract. This was unfortunately his tragic flaw. By then he knew the war was wrong and chose to stick to the full term of his Ranger contract, albeit this conscious (by then) participation in an illegal war being a deviation to his perceived unwavering integrity.

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