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Originally posted by silent_jay
I think that people knew there are outstanding people serving in the military, who everyone owes gratitude, long before Mr. Tillman passed. And while his story is a unique one people in the forces sacrifice things daily that may not seem as inportant as millions of dollars but to these soldiers they mean the world. My main complaint with the media is they make it look like this guy has been the only one to die in the past couple of weeks. Anytime I turn on a newscast there is always a friend of his or a former professor. Not even the moment of silence after the news is over when they show the soldiers picture, they have all been about Mr. Tillman.
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In the vast majority of reports that I see, when they show interviews with "ordinary people" about him they inevitably say he is representative of so many others who devote their lives to defending our country. While people know there are outstanding people serving in the military, these stories get people talking about them and recognizing them more.
He is most certainly not the only death getting attention, I have read many articles this week about those killed in and around Fallujah. He's getting the most attention because people want to hear the story and people are talking about it. That's the nature of the press. For the same reasons there were war bond tours in WWII using heroes from the various combat theatres, there will be attention paid to those "heroes" whose stories resonate with the American public from Iraq and Afghanistan.