Goodbye and Thanks

Goodbye and thanks to SPC Pat Tillman, whom Intel Dump informs me has been killed in action in Afghanistan. SPC Tillman was a professional football player, who left the game after 9/11 to serve his country in the US Army Rangers - one of the best and thus most constantly committed-to-combat light infantry units in the world.

SPC Tillman put America's interests above his own immediate self-interest, and was killed while participating in an operation to find and eliminate enemy leaders. SPC Tillman provided the kind of example to America that our athletes are supposed to provide, but too seldom do.

My condolences, and my thanks, to his family.