All I can say is read this article about Pat Tillman. It's the summation of pretty much everything in America today. Politics, sports, celebrity, propaganda, the media, the war in Iraq... And it is tragedy from start to finish. For those international readers, Tillman walked away from a multimillion dollar contract to play professional sports to serve in the military. He was killed in combat and his death was elevated as he was a poster boy example of All American patriotism. Except that it turns out he wasn't exactly what they wanted him to be. He thought the war in Iraq was illegal. He was an agnostic. He read Chomsky. And he died of friendly fire and four years on his family still don't know what happened to him exactly and why his body armor and fatigues were burned after his death. It's a tragedy beyond belief, because he was so cravenly used as a piece of propaganda, and his life speaks of honor and nobility to a degree that really was impressive.

Right now the Tillman family have to contend with this from the man who handled one of the botched investigations into his death by friendly fire:

Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family's unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives.

In an interview with ESPN.com, Kauzlarich said: "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don't believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more — that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don't know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough."