Pat Tillman killed in Afghanistan

A genuine hero dies in the real war against terrorism.

William Butler Yeats, in his poem that so effectively describes our times, wrote that "the best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." That wasn't true of Pat Tillman, who along with his brother, walked away from a lucrative professional sports contract to join the Rangers in the battle against the perpetrators of the attacks of Sept. 11.