Typical
How telling is it that at least one of the flamers is a Canadian?
Look, if you don't think this guy who gave up a shitload of money to play an f'ing GAME in order to serve his country after an unprecedented terrorist attack is a hero - more power to you. And frankly it doesn't matter one bit if he was first deployed to Iraq or not, soldiers don't pick where they go. It's clear what motivated him. And oh yeah, I'm sure he did it for the glory. Why, everyone knows your name when you're a soldier, right? Try being a soldier. Try giving something of your life, and I don't mean an hour or two here or there at the local youth center - I mean giving years of your life to live and operate in conditions most people wouldn't accept high pay to endure. Tell me it's all about glory, especially when you've turned down fortune _and_ fame for it. For chrissake what a stupid comment.
As for the jerkoff who flamed away because "someone told him" the guy died in Iraq - you perfectly typify the majority of the people who run around flaming the US lately. Fascism! America is a Nazi state! Dubya is a puppet! Or he's a sinister warmonger! (Whichever the case may be that day.) I don't blame people outside the US given the steady and ridiculously one-sided diet of warped information they're fed by their media. (Yes, for a period of time we had a rather one-sided view of things in the US - but only for a period, a period long past, and the foreign media diet pre-dated that by decades and extends on today.) Doesn't mean it's not stupid either way.
My hat is off to Pat Tillman. Whether he's a better man than all of us, he sure as hell sacrificed a 'sure thing' when most of us wouldn't. I served five years and even I don't know if I would do so again if I was facing 3.5 million dollars. And either way, the man gave his life in a place only the most ivory-tower-sitting-gimps would criticize us for being in.
("Went there to kill innocent people" my ***. Hell, even if he was in Iraq the majority of the people being killed there are far from innocent. People seem to have no earthly clue what that place was like, and the hand many of the insurgents today had in that living hell. Many people actually believe these are simply brave men and women who have taken up arms to shake off the oppressive Americans. Unreal.)