Friendly fire

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

That Cpl. Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan was an unspeakable tragedy. That the Pentagon tried to cover up the circumstances of his death is merely unspeakable.

Tillman, 27, who spurned a $3.6 million contract with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals in the months after Sept. 11 to enlist in the Army, died April 22 in a firefight on a mountain ridge near Manah, Afghanistan. The Pentagon said he'd been killed when his Ranger unit was ambushed by Taliban fighters. He was posthumously promoted to corporal and awarded the Silver Star for valor. Not until five weeks after his death did the Pentagon acknowledge that Tillman had been killed by friendly fire.

... Two weeks after Tillman's death, the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal broke in Iraq, The Army was in no hurry to admit further embarrassing news. ...

Even today the Pentagon is covering up. ... Why would the Army dishonor the memory of a brave American soldier?