Pat Tillman got the Silverstar posthumously. Should his family return it?
His brother has drank the Code Pink/Move-on.org/Daily Kos kool-aid.
From the first hand interviews and descriptions that I have read about Pat, it sounds like he was so intent on getting into a firefight, he ran off half cocked up into the ravine where there was a wild firefight/ambush going on. It was almost dark and they couldn’t see well enough to identify who he was and one of the men returned fire thinking he was part of the ambush team. It was unfortunate what happened but not something you should get a silver star for. I saw this happen in Viet Nam several times where some one would run into the line of fire trying to get into the action and get shot either by NVA or our own guys. The Army probably didn’t want to tell this to his parents so they tried to cover and make it sound more heroric. That’s my take as a 2 tour twice wounded combat veteran on the Viet Nam War.