Mother: Army covered up son's death to promote war

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON -- Pat Tillman's mother charged Tuesday that the Army covered up the friendly-fire death of her football-star son in a public relations move to boost the war effort.
"That's not a misstep, and that's not an error," Mary Tillman said on NPR News' "Morning Edition." "They made up a story. It was presented on national television. And we believe they did that to promote the war."
In the latest in a series of investigations into Tillman's death, the Army said Monday that four generals and five other officers made "critical errors" in violation of military rules by withholding the truth about how Tillman was killed April 22, 2004, in Afghanistan.
The officers also allowed approval of a Silver Star citation for Tillman that said he was killed while charging the enemy, when he was actually killed by machine-gun fire from members of his own platoon.
"They could have told us the truth," Mary Tillman said. "And if they didn't want to tell us the truth, they could have said that we don't know, we're doing an investigation. But what they did is they made up a story."
The private briefing the Army gave the Tillman family Monday on the latest investigation turned confrontational, Mary Tillman sais.