Army general backtracks on statement against mourning Kobe Bryant

That was not bright of him. A 2 star should know better.

It was a tragedy, but I mourn for the youths that lost their lives, they had not begun to live yet. Kobe was millionaire as a teenager, has never had to want for a thing in his live, as short as it was. Those kids never got to live.

I don't think his comments were against others mourning Kobe Bryant, he only suggested he would spend his time/energy mourning a soldier that died in Syria. Kobe Bryant will get hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours of TV time, the soldier might get a mention lasting 30 seconds.

Celebrity has a way of distorting the value of others lives. The other 7 people on the chopper (other than Kobe and his daughter) will get little coverage or mention. That is the way celebrity works.

I have nothing against Kobe Bryant, his life and the others lost, is tragic. The pain of all of the family and friends of those lost is real.