Father Of Soldier Killed By “Friendly Fire” Tells Army ‘F*ck You.. And Yours’: "

Pat Tillman is a former football star turned patriotic soldier who was killed in the line of duty by a fellow soldier in the Afghan mountains. Tillman’s death was shrouded in secrecy by the Army and the report they gave his family only increased their suspicions that a calculated cover-up hid the truth about his murder.
Now, a documentary called ‘The Tillman Story’ is scheduled to premier on August 20th and with it, some shocking commentary from the father of the fallen soldier.

The Weinstein Company sent the Huffington Post two previously unseen letters written by Tillman’s father at the peak of frustration with the army’s investigation into his son’s death. The notes, penned to Brigadier General Gary M. Jones (the man spearheading the investigation) as well as the Senate Armed Services Committee (which oversaw Jones’s work), paint a picture of a man increasingly convinced that a massive conspiracy was emerging around the death of his son.

“You are a General,” Tillman’s father writes Jones after being presented with a briefing book of his findings. “There is no way a man like you, with your intelligence, education, military, experience, responsibilities (primarily for difficult situations), and rank… believes the conclusions reached in the March 31, 2005 Briefing Book. But your signature is on it. I assume, therefore, that you are part of this shameless bullshit. I embarrassed myself by treating you with respect [on] March 31, 2005. I thought your rank deserved it and anticipated something different from the new and improved investigation. I won’t act so hypocritically if we meet again.”

“In sum: F*ck you… and yours.”

The two letters are worth a read, if only for the insight they provide into how haphazard and mismanaged (deliberately or not) the investigations were. Tillman’s father comes off as emotional, for good reason. But the questions he raised — while conspiratorial in tone — offer compelling drama (both real life and for the upcoming movie). Take, for instance, the notion that the shooters of his son may have been blinded by the glare of the sunset.

“The shooters were always looking North or Northwest,” Tillman’s father writes. “Even in Afghanistan, the sun sets in the West – Southwest. How on God’s green earth can you add in a “glare factor” looking away from the sun that has set? (P-16) Immediately after the sunset , facing the wrong direction (North vs. Southwest), the glare impaired their vision? Don’t you need sun to have glare?”

Pat Tillman Sr. makes some serious points in his letter. It’s a shame that soldiers sacrifice so much for this country, and the people who reap the benefits of their sacrifice treat their families like sh*t.