The Tillman Story






A new movie opened this past week  that tells the story of the cover-up that surrounded the death of Pat Tillman, NFL star turned combat soldier in Afghanistan. Spurred on by the love of his country, the violation of its freedom on 9/11/01, and his sense of duty, Tillman forsook his lucrative NFL career and joined the army. He was subsequently killed in Afghanistan. The movie portrays the truth about his death.
The plot thickens in the movie as well as in real life; fellow soldiers who knew the truth about his death could not in good conscience carry out the lie that was being propagated by the army intelligence, and as the news media started to smell a rat, Tillman's family began an all out campaign to find out what really happened. The movie apparently dramatizes how all this unfolded.

In a review of the movie in the Los Angeles Times this week, one critic pointed out the irony of how a movie dedicated to uncovering the truth had to struggle with its own temptation to sell out the truth to avoid an R-rating, and thus limit the market to which the story could be told. 

Is it part and parcel of this unwillingness we have as a society to face what our soldiers do for us? I think we owe the people who put their lives on the line for our country the truth, and we owe their families the truth too. They can handle the truth." 

Jesus said the truth would set us free. The truth sets you free; how fun is that? Well, in reality, sometimes it isn't fun at all, and the story around this movie is certainly one of those times. Truth sometimes hurts, but it is still the only thing you really want to know.

I have always had a tendency to think of this in positive terms. The truth will always set us free, it just might not always be what we want to hear. 

Todays post was inspired and partially paraphrased from one of my favourite links... THE CATCH OF THE DAY............check it out it is listed in the  side bar.  If you enjoy real life you might enjoy Johns take on things.   I do!  Take care of yourself today while you  look for the truth. 

Lue

Comments

  1. whiteshelliiAugust 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM

    Summer breezes and blue skies.........wishing you a fantastic day as we hang on to the remainder of summer 2010!!!!

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  2. reeeneAugust 28, 2010 at 5:49 AM

    Love your brown back ground but on the Tellman story cannot read the writing at all maybe choose a diiferant color font

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