Mary Tillman's Crusade For The Truth

Tells 60 Minutes The Government Still Hasn't Told The Whole Truth About Her Son Pat's Death

Source: cbsnews.com
(CBS) Seven military investigations and two Congressional hearings can’t convince Mary Tillman that the government is telling all it knows about the death of her son, a corporal in the U.S. Army Rangers. In her first television interview, Tillman talks to Katie Couric about her son, Pat Tillman, a former NFL star, and her frustration over the way the government handled information about his death by friendly fire.
The interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, May 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"Well, it's hard to take when we heard it was a friendly fire…. I…didn't go into immediate…'Oh, these awful men, they need to be punished,'" says Tillman. "I felt terrible for these young men…and I still do - to a degree. But I don't think it was the horrible accident that they like to play this out. I think there was huge negligence involved here," she tells Couric.
Four years ago in a canyon in Afghanistan, Cpl. Tillman, who gave up his professional football career to fight the war on terror, was killed. The initial word from the Army was that he died in an ambush trying to protect his men. It then came out weeks later that his own men had shot him. Mary Tillman has been on a crusade for the truth ever since, accusing the government of using the initial story as a publicity stunt and covering up the friendly fire incident.
She points to inconsistencies, including that his uniform was burned after his death, which is against regulations, and that the coroner refused to sign the autopsy for months because his analysis of Tillman’s gunshot wounds was not consistent with the Army’s original story.
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