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A writer from Hampshire College, Jon Krakauer, in his biography (of Pat Tillman) “Where Men Win Glory” (15 September 2009), elucidates not only of what happened to Tillman but most importantly to expose the cover ups of the U.S government and the military. He supports this claim by first explaining Pat Tillman’s background information, then describing the government’s conflicting decisions which were in the way of presenting the real truth, then by inserting rhetorical questions the author began a debate between whether Tillman’s death was to be considered as an act of valor or a war crime, and finally emphasizing the amount of emotional trauma the Tillman family had to go through. Krakauer’s purpose is to inform the public about the cover

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