24-01-2010, 10:10 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:Tillman was targeted.
Silence a popular, potentially influential anti-war agitator AND create a martyr whose death fires up the populus to seek revenge.
The irony alone is enough to satisfy the beast.
It's the Custer story writ small.
I waver about whether or not he was targeted. I have a hard time getting past the speed of the cover up, and regardless of the truth about his death there was an instantaneous cover up. His journal/body armor/uniform were burned. Is that typical for a soldier's personal effects to be burned before their body is cold? Even, or especially, in the case of "friendly fire"?