Seems Military have reached new heights of being such Scumbags and
hiding the truth from the soldiers parents and making things up that
aren't real.

They lied to us

Army hid Tillman's friendly-fire death & 'made up a story' to hype war,
mom sez

BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Wednesday, March 28th 2007, 9:13 AM


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Mary Tillman

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WASHINGTON - Pat Tillman's mother charged yesterday that the Army
covered up the friendly-fire death of her football star son in a public
relations move to boost the war effort.

"That's not a misstep, and that's not an error," Mary Tillman said on
NPR News' "Morning Edition." "They made up a story. It was presented on
national television. And we believe they did that to promote the war."

In the latest of a series of investigations into Tillman's death, the
Army said Monday that four generals and five other officers made
"critical errors" in violation of military rules by withholding the
truth about how Tillman was killed April 22, 2004, in Afghanistan.

The officers also allowed approval of a Silver Star citation for Tillman
that said he was killed while charging the enemy, when he was actually
killed by machine-gun fire from members of his own platoon.

"They could have told us the truth," Mary Tillman said. "And if they
didn't want to tell us the truth, they could have said that we don't
know, we're doing an investigation. But what they did is they made up a
story."

The private briefing the Army gave the Tillman family Monday on the
latest investigation turned confrontational, Mary Tillman said.

"The meeting was a travesty," she said. "They told us that we were
abusive. I mean, we got to the point where we were extremely rude to
them, but they weren't - they were just lying."

She said the generals who were criticized in the latest report "are just
taking the fall" for their superiors, including then-Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

"They're not the worst culprits; they were doing a job - and doing
something to cover the hides of people up above," she told The
Associated Press.

The Army's mishandling of the death of the former Arizona Cardinals
defensive back was similar to the public relations fiasco surrounding
the capture of Pvt. Jessica Lynch in the early weeks of the Iraq war.

The military allowed reports to circulate that Lynch fought back
valiantly when she never fired a shot.

rsisk@nydailynews.com