Pat Tillman’s Mom to ABC: President Looks “Foolish”
After watching the documentary about the circumstances surrounding Pat Tillman’s death by friendly fire, and learning more about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s involvement in covering up the true facts about it, I was shocked to hear President Obama would appoint the now-disgraced general to co-chair a position to support military families.
Pat Tillman’s mother Mary, it turns out, agrees with me and many others who are sickened at this choice. She told ABC News that the president’s appointment of McChrystal to this position makes Obama look “foolish.” (I would add it also taints the first lady’s important work in this area.) I, for one, could not concur more with Mary’s disappointment in the president. She is a hero for all she has done to bring the facts about her son — the facts McChrystal and others worked so hard to hide — to light and is rightly affronted that the man who did so much to hurt the Tillman military family would now be in charge of helping other such families.