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Wide shot committee2. SOUNDBITE (English) US Representative Henry Waxman (Democrat - California), Chairman of House Government Reform and Oversight Committee:\"The bare minimum we owe our soldiers and their families is the truth. That...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide shot committee\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) US Representative Henry Waxman (Democrat - California), Chairman of House Government Reform and Oversight Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The bare minimum we owe our soldiers and their families is the truth. That didn't happen for two of the most famous soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman the government violated its most basic responsibility. Sensational details and stories were invented in both cases. Sometimes because of the fog of war the first reports from the battlefield are inaccurate. But that doesn't seem to explain what happened here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Screen showing the original press release for Lynch\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) US Representative Henry Waxman (Democrat - California), Chairman of House Government Reform and Oversight Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"But then they went on, 10 days after her capture, US officials had become the source of a report that riveted the nation but twisted the truth beyond recognition.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of House Government Reform and Oversight Committee\u003cbr/\u003e6. Jessica Lynch and Kevin Tillman are sworn in\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of chairman\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Tillman, brother of Pat Tillman\u003cbr/\u003e\"This was a narrative that inspired countless Americans as intended. There was one small problem with the narrative however: it was utter fiction.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. House Government Reform and Oversight Committee\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Tillman, brother of Pat Tillman\u003cbr/\u003e\"This freshly manufactured narrative was then distributed to the American public and we believe the strategy had the intended effect. It shifted the focus of the grotesque torture at Abu Ghraib and a downward spiral of an illegal act of aggression, to a great American that died a hero's death. Over a month after Pat's death, when it became clear that it would no longer be possible to pull off this deception, a few of the facts were parcelled out to the public.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jessica Lynch, former US Army private: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It was not true. I have repeatedly said when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspire our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. However, I'm still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were legendary.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Panel\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Lynch, former US Army private: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. Thank you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. House Government Reform and Oversight Committee\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Gene Bolles, Neurosurgeon: \u003cbr/\u003e(giving evidence about Jessica Lynch's injuries)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I saw no evidence of gunshot wounds. I looked for metallic fragments on X-rays. I saw none. I saw no injuries that looked like a gunshot wound, to my eye. I saw no entrance and exit wounds that appeared to be corroborative of that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. House Government Reform and Oversight Committee\u003cbr/\u003eThe US military was criticised on Tuesday for inflating and fabricating stories about Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch, perhaps the most famous American military victims of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The bare minimum we owe our soldiers and their families is the truth,\" said US Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat, and chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.\u003cbr/\u003e\"For Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, the government violated its most basic responsibility,\" he added, speaking at a committee hearing on Tuesday. \u003cbr/\u003eTillman was killed on April 22, 2004, after his Army Ranger comrades were ambushed in eastern Afghanistan. Rangers in a convoy trailing Tillman's group had just emerged from a canyon where they had been fired upon. They saw Tillman and mistakenly fired on him.\u003cbr/\u003eThough dozens of soldiers knew that Tillman had been killed by his fellow troops, the Army said initially that he was killed by enemy gunfire when he led his team to help another group of ambushed soldiers.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was five weeks before his family was told the truth, a delay the Army has blamed on procedural mistakes.\u003cbr/\u003eTillman's death received worldwide attention because he had walked away from a huge million dollar contract with the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after the September 11, 2001 attacks.\u003cbr/\u003ePat Tillman's brother Kevin was in a convoy behind his brother when the incident happened three years ago but did not see it.\u003cbr/\u003eTestifying before the committee on Tuesday, he accused the US military of intentional falsehoods and deliberate misrepresentations in portraying his brother's death as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of due to friendly fire.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This was a narrative that inspired countless Americans as intended. There was one small problem with the narrative however: it was utter fiction,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This freshly manufactured narrative ... shifted the focus of the grotesque torture at Abu Ghraib and a downward spiral of an illegal act of aggression, to a great American that died a hero's death. Over a month after Pat's death, when it became clear that it would no longer be possible to pull off this deception, a few of the facts were parcelled out to the public,\" Tillman said.\u003cbr/\u003eWaxman accused the government of inventing sensational details and stories about Pat Tillman's death, and about  the 2003 rescue of Jessica Lynch in Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eLynch, then an Army private, was badly injured when her convoy was ambushed in Iraq in 2003. \u003cbr/\u003eShe was subsequently rescued by American troops from an Iraqi hospital but the tale of her ambush was changed into a story of heroism on her part.\u003cbr/\u003eStill hampered by her injuries, Lynch walked slowly to the witness table and took a seat alongside Tillman's family members.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have repeatedly said when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspire our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. 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