Tillman’s generation

Robert Alt has a moving tribute to Pat Tillman and those men serving with him, such as our man in Afghanistan, the Army Reserve Major from Minneapolis whose reports we have posted here on occasion over the past several months: “Tillman’s generation.” Alt writes:

There is a temptation to say that Pat Tillman demonstrated a courage and ethic belonging peculiarly to a previous generation

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