To be honest, this may actually get him a job when he graduates. He has made himself stand out. Whether he's right or not could be debated from many sides, but it's getting him the attention I believe he wanted. And considering the world we live in right now, I wouldn't be surprised if he took that point of view just to gain attention. Just to gain his 15 minutes of fame. Just to appear on CNN opposite Larry King and say
"Well Larry, I wrote this article from pain and anger, and if you go to my website at www.renegonzalez.com
you can purchase my book and read the pain from which the article was created."
I'm probably overreacting, but it would not surprise me at all.
Look how well it's worked out for Jason Blake. Though I won't give Blake credit for strategically mapping out his path to infamy, as well as riches, he did parlay his dishonesty and corruption of his moral fibre into a 6 figure book deal. But maybe I should, maybe he's smarter than you, I and just everybody else. Maybe he's extremely intelligent and who exerted his brilliance in his own way(the wrong way might I add)?
The point that I'm finally getting at is that Rene Gonzalez lied. Pat Tillman is a hero. Maybe not to Mr Gonzalez. Maybe not to some Americans. But Tillman is a hero. He's a hero to millions of other Americans. To those who are serving in Iraq, to those who played football with and against him, to those who drive garbage trucks, to those who teach
and to those from every walk of life.
Not everyone is going to agree with why the US is in Iraq, but the fact that Tillman did what he did and showed self-sacrifice for a cause and a country he believes in is very noble. We all could learn something from Tillman. We all could learn a lesson about selflessness and sacrifce, not just in the arena of war, but in all aspects in our day to day life.
That sounds like a hero to me.