{"article":{"id":109218,"heading":"UMass Student Apologizes To Tillman Family For Column","author":"Drudge","created":"2004-05-01 16:15:11","modified":"2004-05-01 16:15:11","last_modified":"Sun, 02 May 2004 00:15:11","article":"<p>AMHERST, Mass. -- A University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduate student is apologizing to Pat Tillman's family.  <br><br> Rene Gonzalez had written a column for the campus paper saying the football player-turned-soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan wasn't a hero -- but a \"G.I. Joe guy who got what was coming to him.\"   <br><br> Gonzalez said in an e-mail to a Boston TV station that he was trying to say Tillman's celebrity had factored into his being labeled a hero.  <br><br> He admits he tried to prove his point in an \"insensitive way\" and that the article wasn't worth publishing.  <br><br> The school's president issued a statement calling Gonzalez's column \"a disgusting, arrogant and intellectually immature attack\" on Tillman.  <br><br> The paper ran a letter to readers today saying the column didn't express the paper's views. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Rene Gonzalez, a punkass not fit to carry Pat Tillman's jockstrap, &quot;apologizes&quot; for his idiocy (too late, shithead).","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/05\/109218.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}