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Originally posted by denim
Certainly. Why is that hard for you to understand?
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I don't know. Why is it greater that he gave up money rather than friends and family? I would think, in the grand scheme of things, that family is family and that money is just....well, money. He gave up an obscene amount of cash and his beloved friends and family. I would think there would be no question as to which was the greater sacrifice.
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Because everyone who goes over there has that. This guy gave up MILLIONS, not hundreds.
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This devalues the life of every other Tom, Dick and Harry over there fighting.
twotimesadingo's point about the peasant's sacrifice really seems applicable here. Tillman's choice to give up the life of "ease" makes his sacrifice greater than the regular folk? Tillman dying deserves a greater honorific than the regular soldier?
No, it doesn't. From what I read of Mr. Tillman, he wouldn't have thought so either. What makes his story, at least it should of made his story, was the fact that he joined
knowing war was on the horizon. He didn't join to pad his record, he didn't join to serve his weekend, he joined the Army Rangers when the inevitable war loomed on the horizon. This is what should be celebrated not the fact that he gave up a paycheck, but the paycheck seems to impress us the most....