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Death of a True American Hero - Afghanistan - April 2004
Here in Bangkok, I turned on my computer this Friday evening to read that Pat Tillman had been killed in action in Afghanistan this date. I cried - and I canât even remember the last time I cried. Sometime last year, I had picked this great man as my present day hero - as a shining example of what John Stuart Mill once wrote about ... scorning those men "who had no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of men better than themselves." There are many malcontents out there who owe their ability to whine in freedom to heroes like Pat Tillman. My pen name here is not about cowboys and Tonto - it is about Dahlonegoa Georgia and Ranger Class 11-76, back in 1976 - when I graduated from Ranger School. My deepest and utmost respect to this fine Ranger who gave the utmost measure of sacrifice, sticking up for his country. I know of no finer recent example of honor and sacrifice. Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-04-23 |
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