Word: tillman
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...forward post inside Iraq. In 2006 his unit succeeded in tracking down and killing Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal's record has not been without controversy. After the 2004 death by friendly fire of former NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, Pentagon investigators said McChrystal provided information that misleadingly suggested Tillman died at the enemy's hands when recommending him for the Silver Star. But the Army decided that McChrystal had "no reasonable basis" for second-guessing officers who drafted the recommendation...
...notched two goals in the second period to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead, and tallied a third score in the second half as Harvard defeated Duke, 9-6. The win was the Crimson’s first victory over a top-10 team under current coach John Tillman...
...Harvard men set the bar high for next year, beating a top-10 opponent for the first time under head coach John Tillman. But a handful of one-goal losses denied the Crimson the chance to vie for the Ivy League title and kept them from postseason play...
...irony is that, despite the outrage expressed ostensibly on the Tillman family’s behalf, Tillman’s mother told me she had never read Gonzalez’s essay. Tillman’s brother, Kevin, also an Army Ranger, unknowingly echoed Gonzalez when he wrote, in 2006, “Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue, and honor of its soldiers on the ground...
...Five years and zero weapons of mass destruction later, one could view Gonzalez as an anti-war hero. Maybe even Pat Tillman would have agreed...