Disgusting

[justme23]

I don't even know how to express how disgusting this is...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1792200

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[VALENA-)45]

Yes, i agree that was disgusting to read and to be said about a human being, a man that went to war to fight not only for the United States, but also for whatever country, that big mouth young man is in, for the World, to be a safer and better place for all of us to live in. i told a lady today, We are the United States of America, we are Americans, We stand and Fight for what is Ours, and we will never allow any man or country, to take away what so many people of and from other countries are dieing to come here to the United States for, we have a very preious comodity, that the whole world wants. FREEDOM. FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF CHOICE, FREEDOM TO DO DAMN NEAR ANYTHING, WE AMERICANS WANT TO DO, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT AGAINEST THE LAW. IF I KNEW HOW TO COPY THIS I WOULD SEND IT TO THAT PAPER THAT PRINTED THE STORY. TO THIS THE FAMILY OF THE YOUNG MAN THAT GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ME: I SAY THIS, I LOVE YOUR SON, CAUSE HE GAVE UP HIS LIFE FOR ME, TO BE ABLE TO LIFE FREE. THE YOUNG MANS NAME IS PAT TILLMAN, THANK YOU, MR. TILLMAN FOR YOUR GIFT, AT A HUGE PRICE. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.

[Blackberry]

I don't even know what to say ???? That is so horrible!!! No matter how that guy feels about us being in Afgahnastan he went WAY to far.

[Shann]

Wow.. I think the writer of that article should be sent over there..... I don't understand how he could say such things about Pat. From what I understand, he passed up making lots of money to fight for our country. I'm sure we cannot say the same for the writer if he was in the same situations.

[momfromTN]

The writer of the column sounds like the worst entitlement-expecting, spoiled, infantile, know-it-all, BRATS, of whose drivel I have had the unfortunate pleasure of reading. This crap is not worth being bird cage liner. He does have a right to his opinion, but he ought to thank God and people like Pat Tillman who have made these rights possible and ongoing. What a jackass.

[dwayshan]

It is really sad that there are people who feel that way. I think it sux that they are there and wish they would bring all of our heroes home soon.

[Army-Mom]

It is really sad when someone can write something like this about someones son that gave his life for our country..My son is in Iraq and it is hard waiting for that phone call or just a e-mail so that at least you know he is alive and safe that day..I have gotten an e-mail that said mom, dad, I love you I am safe..but that was enough for us cause at least we had heard something..god bless this family that is having to go thru such pain with the loss of their son..
hugs to all the families that have loved one over there..
Marcia

[DivineMsDi]

Even if you don't agree with the war....SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!! EOM

[KeliMom]

What a complete jerk!

[Technologist]

The "student" that wrote that article has realized the mistake he has made....

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1792673

Thursday, April 29, 2004


Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. -- A University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduate student has apologized to Pat Tillman's family.


Rene Gonzalez wrote a column for the campus paper saying the football player-turned-soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan wasn't a hero -- but rather a "G.I. Joe guy who got what was coming to him."


Gonzalez did not respond to telephone and e-mail messages left Thursday by The Associated Press, but in an e-mail to Boston's WBZ-TV, he apologized to the Tillman family "for all the pain that my article has brought them."


Gonzalez said he was trying to convey that Tillman's celebrity came into play when the former Arizona Cardinals player was labeled a hero.


"I felt that his celebrity had been a factor in American society calling him a 'hero,' and I felt American society had arrived at that conclusion without much thinking, but rather as some sort of patriotic 'knee-jerk' into hero worship," he wrote. "That was my point. I did it [admittedly] in such an insensitive way, that the article was not worth publishing."


UMass president Jack Wilson issued a statement saying the comments in The Daily Collegian on Wednesday were "a disgusting, arrogant and intellectually immature attack on a human being who died in service to his country."


The newspaper's editorial board ran a letter to readers in Thursday's edition saying Gonzalez's views do not reflect The Collegian's opinion.

[freeby4me]

That is exactly why that man went to fight and lost his life. So people would have the freedom to say what they think. I dont think one bit that he should have stated those things, That was morally completely wrong but what can you expect from someone who has no idea what fighting for this country is about? Support our troops!