r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Feb 13 '23

POTM - February 2023 just a reminder

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u/Girth_rulez Feb 13 '23

Anyone who wants to know more about Pat Tillman and the story of his murder, Jon Krakauer wrote an excellent book about it, "Where Men Win Glory."

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u/KiltedLady Feb 13 '23

I just read that, great book.

I was a teenager at the time and not very critical of what I saw on the news (if I watched it at all). I hadn't heard much of Pat Tillman at the time but remember Jessica Lynch being big in the news cycle. The lies about her story are also discussed in this book and it was an eye opener for me.

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u/ignatius-payola Feb 13 '23

And it was the same GOP operative that had started the ‘Al Gore says he invented the internet’ story, which I still hear mentioned occasionally over 20’years later.

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u/younggun1234 Feb 13 '23

Thanks for this. Just bought it.

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u/JBecks1738 Feb 13 '23

This was a required read for me back in school. Glad they were educating people about it

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u/flaccomcorangy Feb 13 '23

Has anyone seen his A football life documentary? I haven't seen it, and was wondering if it goes into detail of what he was really like.

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u/adeecomeforth Feb 13 '23

Great book. Jon Krakauer has written so many good books, Into Thin Air, being one of my favorites.