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By Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady - Politics DailyPARK CITY, Utah -- So, we are midway through the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the snow keeps falling and some sense of decorum and civilized behavior has returned to Park City. Most of the sharks and agents have hightailed it back to Los Angeles. Most of us indie filmmakers have had our premieres, hawked our movies, jockeyed for press, scoured the inter-web for reviews and congratulated each other on a job well done. Now its time to mingle. Wednesday night, the directors of all the films got together to knock a few back and celebrate just making it this far. Intriguing characters from ...
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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDavid Wood: "The Good Soldiers," by David Finkel. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pages) Of the many books written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the only one to skip the policy and strategy arguments and go straight to the heart of the matter: young Americans grappling with the most brutal and frightening violence experienced in generations. Matt Lewis: There's no dearth of books about Ronald Reagan, but Craig Shirley has written a great new one. Having devoured Shirley's previous book about the 1976 campaign, "Reagan's Revolution," I was amazed to find that his '09 effort, ...
New Commander in Afghanistan Was Faulted in Pat Tillman Case
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsAs the U.S. Senate considers approving Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the new top commander in Afghanistan, the case of Pat Tillman is likely to resurface.Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinals safety who quit the NFL to join the Army, was killed in Afghanistan in a friendly fire incident that the military initially attempted to cover up. And Time Magazine is reporting that McChrystal's role in the Tillman incident could mean his Senate confirmation won't go smoothly.So what, exactly, was McChrystal's role? It's a bit complicated, but McChrystal sent a memo to other generals urging them ...
Cris Collinsworth Says Pat Tillman Should Be Hall of Famer; Is It a Good Idea?
By Bruce Ciskie - AOL NewsThere is no questioning the very real sacrifice made by former Cardinals safety Pat Tillman. He felt he had a duty to help defend our great country. Whether you agree or disagree with our military involvement overseas, you can't argue that Tillman gave his life to help make our lives better, and make our country a better place.The NFL, in my opinion, did a very nice job honoring Tillman during the season after his death in April of 2004. The Cardinals have also done the right things when it comes to Tillman's memory.But could the sport of football do more to honor Tillman?NBC's Cris ...
Pat Tillman's Mom Tells the NFL: Help Me Find Out What Happened to My Son
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsPat Tillman is an American hero, and the NFL is, of course, proud to be associated with him. But his mother, Mary Tillman, believes that the league only wants to be associated with him on its terms.In an interview with Dave Zirin, Mary Tillman said she still doesn't think the Army has given her a straight answer about the circumstances of Pat's death, and she thinks the NFL would rather exploit her son's death than help her find out the truth:"I think the [NFL] has not gone out of its way to help," she told me. The league has "exploited Pat, just like the military. ... [It has] a beautiful ...
Caleb Campbell Criticized for Leaving West Point for NFL While Classmates Go to Iraq
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsIn the seventh round of last month's NFL draft, the Detroit Lions selected Caleb Campbell, a safety who played college football at Army. And thanks to a new U.S. military policy, Campbell will get to play in the NFL, assuming he makes the Lions' roster, while his West Point classmates have to serve active duty, many of them in Iraq.In a profile in the Boston Globe, Campbell talks about the harsh criticism he has faced from people who think he's doing the wrong thing by going to the NFL instead of serving on active duty:"The worst was a handwritten letter," says Campbell, a native of Perryton, ...
Pat Tillman's Mom: Army Still Lying
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsMary Tillman, the mother of Pat Tillman, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night and says she still can't get the truth about her son's death from the U.S. Army. Here's a brief clip:More from the 60 Minutes web site:At that time, Tillman's family was led to believe that he was killed by the enemy, which was reinforced when the Army awarded him a Silver Star for his "gallantry in action against an armed enemy." They were told his convoy had been ambushed and he had charged up a hill, forcing the enemy to withdraw and saving the lives of his fellow Rangers. That story was a complete fabrication, but ...
Pat Tillman Makes College Football Hall of Fame Ballot
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsTillman was a Pac-10 defensive player of the year at Arizona State before playing several years in the NFL. He later joined the US Army Rangers unit where he was later killed by friendly fire during an operation in Afghanistan.Since that time, Tillman's become a national hero of sorts, while his family has battled to pursue possible negligence that led to his death and how the military handled the investigation of the friendly fire incident.I can't speak for his NFL career, but he was an absolute demon while at ASU as an undersized safety/linebacker. Tillman was on the 1997 Rose Bowl ASU team ...
The Prelude, Week 13: Death and the NFL
By Matt Ufford - AOL NewsMatt Ufford is the editor of With Leather and a co-founder of Kissing Suzy Kolber. The Prelude is his sincere examination of the coming NFL weekend.The last time I wrote about Sean Taylor's death, one comment I received stood out from the rest. It said, in essence, "Not to take away from the tragedy, but it's too bad our military members aren't met with same admiration when one of them dies in Iraq." The sentence struck me as profound. By all accounts, Taylor was a bright, talented young man who was taking steps to distance himself from his troubled past now that he had a family and job ...
Pat Tillman Coverage 'The Most Important Story ESPN.com Has Ever Done'
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsYou can't fully understand America in the 21st Century without knowing the story of Pat Tillman. The story of Tillman encompasses 9/11 and our nation's response to it, the way a tiny portion of the country bore an enormous portion of the burden for the war on terror, the failures of the war on terror and the ways the American government has misled its people about those failures. And no news outlet has done as good a job explaining the Tillman story as ESPN.com, led by Mike Fish's An Un-American Tragedy. ESPN.com isn't often noted for investigative journalism, but Fish's work would be worthy, ...
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