Reply #10: This entire episode sounds ominous [View All]

[brentspeak]

His daily diary disappeared immediately following his death? How could that happen? That's the kicker, the diary. It's highly unusual, almost unheard of, for a fallen soldier's comrades not to collate properly the deceased's personal possessions for the family's sake.

Somebody didn't want the contents of that diary to be known. Granted, it's possible that Patrick Tillman himself may have instructed one of his buddies to destroy the diary in the event of his death. But that's just a speculative stretch.

One other thing: the revelation of Tillman's dislike for both Bush and the Iraq War should shame those individuals, such as Ted Rall, who ridiculed Patrick Tillman's enlistment. He clearly was not the boneheaded wannabe killer-of-Muslims that Rall (and even a few people here on DU) tried to pass off to the public.