Comments on: Was Pat Tillman Fragged? http://www.sohhoverit.com/2007/07/27/was-pat-tillman-fragged/ Listen, BITCH! We're On Top Of The WORLD! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:35:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Pat Tillman http://www.sohhoverit.com/2007/07/27/was-pat-tillman-fragged/#comment-17638 Pat Tillman Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:51:44 +0000 http://www.sohhoverit.com/2007/07/27/was-pat-tillman-fragged/#comment-17638 Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan will always fascinate Americans, but probably most clearly for a reason they won't understand because accepting it, like acknowledging that we're going to die, pops the balloon of simplistic pleasantries we use to disguise life itself. For all the reams of rhetoric and frenetic reporting about his demise, there is one word that will pop that balloon and the media is afraid to use it. Fragging. Those who write are aware of a need to watch for any term that becomes repeated too much, as if insistently by a child in denial. Peacekeepers. Humanitarian mission. Terrorism. And now, "friendly fire." Pat Tillman's death was originally in combat, but now (sleight of hand), we're told it was "friendly fire." http://www.corrupt.org/articles/sacrifice/ I'm sad that people aren't bold enough to see this. He wanted to fight, his platoon wanted to lag, and so they killed him in the same way they killed American officers in Vietnam: the listless mass turns its weapons on those few who see meaning in the fight (even if I don't agree with that decision, at least they wanted to get something done in a world of dodgers, slackers, losers, burnouts, fence-sitters, bean-counters, liars, lagabouts, gold brickers, donut engulfers, couch potatoes, whiners, parasites and hipsters). Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan will always fascinate Americans, but probably most clearly for a reason they won’t understand because accepting it, like acknowledging that we’re going to die, pops the balloon of simplistic pleasantries we use to disguise life itself. For all the reams of rhetoric and frenetic reporting about his demise, there is one word that will pop that balloon and the media is afraid to use it.

Fragging.

Those who write are aware of a need to watch for any term that becomes repeated too much, as if insistently by a child in denial. Peacekeepers. Humanitarian mission. Terrorism. And now, “friendly fire.” Pat Tillman’s death was originally in combat, but now (sleight of hand), we’re told it was “friendly fire.”

http://www.corrupt.org/articles/sacrifice/

I’m sad that people aren’t bold enough to see this. He wanted to fight, his platoon wanted to lag, and so they killed him in the same way they killed American officers in Vietnam: the listless mass turns its weapons on those few who see meaning in the fight (even if I don’t agree with that decision, at least they wanted to get something done in a world of dodgers, slackers, losers, burnouts, fence-sitters, bean-counters, liars, lagabouts, gold brickers, donut engulfers, couch potatoes, whiners, parasites and hipsters).

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