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[BringBackJoeT]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Dude that review or explanation of Tillman or anyone for that matter made zero sense. WTF do you smoke?

Fine. I'll simplify. The post I responded to said that Tillman was probably a dick whose eagnerness for glory on a battlefield placed him into a stereotype and possibly cost him his life. So I said that I read a book about Tillman, and that the author's position was that Tillman was not a dick, and that his interests, philosophies, and positions made it very difficult to put him into a stereotype, and that he didn't enlist for the potential for glory. I then said that others tried to paint of picture of Tillman to serve their own purposes, but the picture they painted was not accurate, and overshadowed an otherwise very tragic story. I closed with a recommendation that the book be read.

Given that we're talking about movies here, I should probably also recommend that the documentary be watched. However, I haven't seen the documentary, so I can't give it a recommendation. What I can say is that one person's comment about why he would not watch the documentary is, I believe, not supported by the facts about Tillman's life.