On April 22, 2004, former NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan and it may not have been an accident!

Tillman had been killed by friendly fire, not the Taliban. As if that weren’t bad enough, the circumstances surrounding his death were highly suspicious...

Tillman turned down a $3.6 million, three-year contract with the Cardinals for a yearly Army salary of $18,000.

Pat Tillman was against the Iraq War. He was prepared to go to Afghanistan, where the war effort had begun, but he was not happy to hear that the focus was now on a different country.

Tillman had intended to fight against Al Qaeda and bring Osama bin Laden to justice. But the Bush administration had pivoted to Iraq to track down Saddam Hussein and his alleged weapons of mass destruction. That wasn’t what Tillman had signed up for, but he went anyway.

Just one year later, Tillman’s second tour would take him to Afghanistan, where he would tragically die at age 27.

Tillman noticed differences between his experience in the war and its depiction in the media. For instance, he was assigned to a unit that would help release a POW named Jessica Lynch from Iraqi forces in 2003, and he saw firsthand the media’s sensationalized spin on the story.

While the military portrayed Lynch as being in extreme danger, she had actually been taken care of by Iraqi doctors in a hospital.While the military portrayed Lynch as being in extreme danger, she had actually been taken care of by Iraqi doctors in a hospital.

While the shooting has since been described as accidental, some have their doubts. Not only was Tillman shot three times in the head, but he was also shot at close range and there was no evidence of any enemy fire in the area!

The doctors believed that Tillman had been shot by an American M-16 rifle from just 10 yards away. But despite the worrying details in this report, it was apparently shelved and not released to the public for years.

Eerily, it was also discovered that Tillman’s personal items had been burned, including his uniform and private journals. And those who were present during his death were told to keep quiet about what actually happened...

Prosecutor for the case talked to my college class back in the day. It was friendly fire. He was with a translator. When the other group approached they only saw the translator, assumed he was a hostile, open fire and Tillman got caught.

When you see stuff like Collateral Murder and the one story of CIA backed rebels fighting DOJ backed rebels, you understand that they were just seeking violence and death, how they got it didn't matter. As long as people were dying they could justify their war, even if their carelessness was the reason people were dying.