Pat Tillman

Pat Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, abruptly left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army. He was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire.

Hostility towards Tillman

In a column published on April 28 2004 in the University of Massachusetts student newspaper, Rene Gonzalez, a graduate student, wrote that Tillman got what he deserved for being a "macho man". http://media.dailycollegian.com/pages/tillman_lobandwidth.html The student later apologized after a barrage of adverse national media coverage.

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April 28 - 2004 - University of Massachusetts - Rene Gonzalez

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A few days later, on May 3, a cartoon by Ted Rall http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/ distributed by Universal Press Syndicate received heavy criticism for portraying Tillman as a misled "idiot" who had enlisted to "kill Arabs". MSNBC.com, one of many organizations subscribed to Universal Press Syndicate, briefly posted the cartoon but pulled it when "MSNBC.com Editor in chief Dean Wright concluded Rall item did not meet MSNBC.com standards of fairness and taste." A year later, in another cartoon dated May 21 2005, under the titles "Here's where we'll get more troops" and "Reanimate dead soldiers", a drill sergeant shouts to a uniformed living dead, "And duck the friendly fire this time, soldier Zombie." http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2005/05/21/

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May 3 - Ted Rall - Universal Press Syndicate - MSNBC.com - May 21 - 2005 - Drill sergeant

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