Picks and Pans Review: Boots on the Ground by Dusk

By CAROLINE LEAVITT, JENNIFER GARCIA, BILL HEWITT, MICHELLE GREEN, MARY GREEN, JAKE LAMAR, JOANNA POWELL, RENNIE DYBALL

UPDATED 05/26/2008 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 05/26/2008 at 01:00 AM EDT

by Mary Tillman with Narda Zacchino |

    

REVIEWED BY BILL HEWITT

MEMOIR

Tillman convincingly argues the Army tried to hide the real story of the death of her son Pat, killed in Afghanistan in '04. But the best parts are the glimpses of the ex-NFLer himself, who emerges as loyal, principled, modest: an exceptional man.