Thoughts for September: Unsurprising Surge Results, 9/11 Memorials and Bad Apples

As I think about the upcoming Labor Day, the anniversary of 9/11 and our GI’s stuck in the mud over there, I cannot help but think about our national hero who gave up a valuable football contract to serve his country.

Not only have we not shown the Tillman family the appropriate respect, it is clear that our government and the military is engaged in a cover-up.

What is this now, the seventh investigation?

How many investigations does it take to get at the truth.

Military experts have already studied the problem and admitted that it could not have been a case of mistaken identity.

And there is proof it was “friendly fire.”

The parents have been lied to, accused of not being good Christians by a commanding officer of this Army and have been mislead and deceived throughout the entire course of this sham investigation.

Originally, the president said that he didn’t know anything about it.

Then they said inferred that he was shot by terrorists.

Later, they admitted to friendly fire.

But what just came out of the so-called investigation is that not only was it friendly fire, but the assailant was close enough to put two rounds, less than two inches apart, in his forehead.

This is not only a close shot, it is an expert series of rounds carefully planned and placed.

What can one gather from this experience?

It seems to me perfectly clear that virtually everyone connected with this fiasco has lied or misled the family and blurred the facts to put the best possible face on them.

I’ve been in two actions myself and I have never seen the government try to cover up the way it is doing in this particular case.

As we know, in this government, the decisions flow from the top down and there is no tolerance for embellishing the facts which leads one to suspect that what has transpired has been the decision at the very top of the pecking order.

I suspect that anyone looking at whatever has emerged as fact in this case can only conclude one thing: This is a case of deliberate murder.

To think that we cannot get any nearer the truth with soldiers who are under the command of their generals indicates that nobody wants to get close to the truth.

It is time for the civilian courts to take over this farce and for the family’s troubles to be put to rest as best they can; but not through lies and innuendos.

It is another sad for this country that we have been besotted by a proliferation of rotten apples at the very top.

Not a very bright prospect as we prepare for our final vacation of Summer.

It will be time to get back to work soon and our first action should be to jettison the entire crew.

Otherwise, we shall have to live with the lies forever.

Les Aaron