pseudobrit
May 10, 2004, 01:17 AM
This is a great piece that showed up in my local paper today.
Seek and maybe you’ll find someone like Pat Tillman
By Gil Smart
Sunday News
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - So by now you know the story of Pat Tillman...
But I bet you didn’t read this:
“Pat isn’t with God,” he said. “He’s [expletive] dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s [expletive] dead.”
That was Pat Tillman’s younger brother, Rich, who according to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Gwen Knapp showed up at the funeral clad in a white T-shirt. Decidedly unconventional.
Which is a word, it seems, that fit his older brother to a T...
And it strikes me that maybe we didn’t know so much about Pat Tillman after all.
He certainly sounds like he was an extraordinary guy, which perhaps makes his death all the more tragic. Here was someone who had read the Bible, but also the Koran, the Book of Mormon, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. He’d asked his college coaches if they would coach gays. Why or why not?
A seeker, in other words. Someone gifted with extraordinary physical talents who also valued the intellect. Guys like him seem in short supply these days. Particularly among those who were the quickest to politicize his death...
...the speed with which Tillman was transformed from an actual human being into some sort of two-dimensional caricature was stunning...
...from the beginning, there was a political subtext to this lionization: The insinuation was that Tillman was not only a great American, but likely a conservative one as well, for his sense of honor and duty is certainly something possessed only by conservatives; liberals would never do what Tillman did.
I highly recommend you read the whole article here (http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6555)
Seek and maybe you’ll find someone like Pat Tillman
By Gil Smart
Sunday News
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - So by now you know the story of Pat Tillman...
But I bet you didn’t read this:
“Pat isn’t with God,” he said. “He’s [expletive] dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s [expletive] dead.”
That was Pat Tillman’s younger brother, Rich, who according to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Gwen Knapp showed up at the funeral clad in a white T-shirt. Decidedly unconventional.
Which is a word, it seems, that fit his older brother to a T...
And it strikes me that maybe we didn’t know so much about Pat Tillman after all.
He certainly sounds like he was an extraordinary guy, which perhaps makes his death all the more tragic. Here was someone who had read the Bible, but also the Koran, the Book of Mormon, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. He’d asked his college coaches if they would coach gays. Why or why not?
A seeker, in other words. Someone gifted with extraordinary physical talents who also valued the intellect. Guys like him seem in short supply these days. Particularly among those who were the quickest to politicize his death...
...the speed with which Tillman was transformed from an actual human being into some sort of two-dimensional caricature was stunning...
...from the beginning, there was a political subtext to this lionization: The insinuation was that Tillman was not only a great American, but likely a conservative one as well, for his sense of honor and duty is certainly something possessed only by conservatives; liberals would never do what Tillman did.
I highly recommend you read the whole article here (http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6555)
