Writer of Pat Tillman article "sorry"

[Gnslngr]

http://sports.espn.go.comAssociated Press

AMHERST, Mass. -- A University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduate student has apologized to Pat Tillman's family.


Rene Gonzalez wrote a column for the campus paper saying the football player-turned-soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan wasn't a hero -- but rather a "G.I. Joe guy who got what was coming to him."


Gonzalez did not respond to telephone and e-mail messages left Thursday by The Associated Press, but in an e-mail to Boston's WBZ-TV, he apologized to the Tillman family "for all the pain that my article has brought them."


Gonzalez said he was trying to convey that Tillman's celebrity came into play when the former Arizona Cardinals player was labeled a hero.


"I felt that his celebrity had been a factor in American society calling him a 'hero,' and I felt American society had arrived at that conclusion without much thinking, but rather as some sort of patriotic 'knee-jerk' into hero worship," he wrote. "That was my point. I did it [admittedly] in such an insensitive way, that the article was not worth publishing."


UMass president Jack Wilson issued a statement saying the comments in The Daily Collegian on Wednesday were "a disgusting, arrogant and intellectually immature attack on a human being who died in service to his country."


The newspaper's editorial board ran a letter to readers in Thursday's edition saying Gonzalez's views do not reflect The Collegian's opinion.
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[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The best evidence so far that "higher education" is not teaching people to think (for themselves), but rather teaching them WHAT to think.

Had the little moron THOUGHT about what he was writing, he'd never have written the assinine Bravo Sierra to begin with. But since he was taught to think that, he never thought at all, especially not about what he was writing (read "parroting").

A sad commentary indeed on education in this country. And a "graduate student" no less. Who has learned nothing other than to open his mouth without conscious thought.

We fail to teach history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and most of all English. And then we wonder why the future turns out the way it does. After that, some moron tells us education is in the state that it is in because we don't spend enough on it. Like every other problem, their solution is to throw money at it. Not THEIR money mind you, but some one else's money.

[FUNKED1]

Where do I sign the petition to send him back to Puerto Rico?

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Where do I sign the petition to send him back to Puerto Rico?

I'd rather send him to Gitmo where he will be among friends...