This ESPN Sports Century biography on Pat Tillman is divided into six parts. I think this aired in 2005. For updated information, read “Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman” by Mary Tillman http://www.amazon.com/Boots-Ground-Dusk-Tribute-Tillman/dp/1594868808 and “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman” by Jon Krakauer http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385522266/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1594868808&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1R1ZC333SDPTXNBP09RW
Video Transcript
it was a tuesday which is typically the
players day off that their respect atthe facilityworking out and uh...we have the television on in the press
roomto her placeinto the world trade centerin parenting terrorist attack on our
countryall like thisalike but miss we're looking at a young
life picture for washingtonhand there is smoke for now the pentagonjust sitting there watching getting
angrier and angrier and angrierand you could cthatthis affected himmaybe even more deeply that affected all
of usgoing to see in the next day and i know
deeply affect them i know how pissed offabout what happenedthe day after september eleventhsat down with one of our video crewfor the team in gave an interviewand use on theremissus rabin point about what he should
be doing as a personas our place with the chin on every now
and get about this for thatand if we have reducedbut i'd like this to stop and think
about just hownot only how good we have a but what
kind of a system will live underdot just couldn't stand itbeing heldon a pedestalabove so many other people critic put
beforehad believed inhis country he believed in the people
that paid the ultimate sacrifice for thecountrymy great grandfather was a pro harbored
a lot of my family is is gone foughtwars andi really have done a damn thinguh... as far as land myself a lot like
that and so i have a great deal ofrespect for those that have and with the
flag stands forhad called patjust to talk with all my songs and
illinois october got the feeling thatit wasn't justsaying this because it's a good
interviewhe was saying it from his hearti feel guilty than having them anything
because iat times like this when you realize what
is important what is an important againwe play it isn'tpolitics is now someone season he
attracted nine eleven pardon inside sooninventor and speech he gave his for
future he would not definethat was that the owners means down in
floridamcardle mentor for three point sixty
threeand i called her on the phone numbers at
thatwe got a really consider taking this onedon't do this to me again introduced me
with the renowned sitting just laughingand then all of a suddenhe said to me in a kind of sharpens the
frisca have plansi'm thinking about doing something but i
can tell youi'd mention some till now daniel
purchase season tickets pictured in thesecond healing to buy my ticket he sits
up like i don't know if i do that justyetkinda got me thinking aboutorel katz convene nextthere was no surprise win sillman
married his high school sweetheart regentea in may of two thousand twobut after the honeymoon a decision that
had been warming for months came intofocus film in with his brother seven
which won the u_s_ army and seekplacement with the rangers any elite
special forces unitspunchy take three years ago set up your
famand then go to the rangers when you're
done with football three years nowi can do thatthey won't accept me after twenty five i
got to do it nowsubdirectoryi called happenhad to do on the envelope with football
right nowhe said you know the chapelact did not make any decisionsand lester well-thought-outand nowone right brought it up this approach
other work on this for yearsi think it surprise people who joined
the rangers but in some ways it didn'tsurprise people and most of his friends
if you askthey can assert half sleeve in the
n_f_l_ madonna rentersyou know something about rightbrought a lot of different scenarioswith one of was therein making this decision remains high
profile as it wasthis is going to be a very bigsituation i ask my secretary will handlehe said i'm notnoted your goodnessepisode join the militaryi know he didn't want to to becomesurface because the second that happenspeople try to immediately discredit your
decisionuh... we should look for publicity older
students always doing thatthe best waynot to give them ammunition is just not
a singleyou just want to go on as an hourly ratehe did not wantto go in as pat somewhere in the n_f_l_
footballhe made his decision to walk away from
that lifestyle incoming soldanyone who treated like all the other
soldiersthe army is not a place for friends fair
not place forever comes in and is ready for the cost
forhe was treated like any other majormoderator comes inpurcell come through our basic training
benefits of the true training once hecompletes that he'll go they're bored
school they'll go to the rangerindoctrination program seventy-fifth
ranger regimentprocesses the mt capacity to be a rangerwill graduate from their move to a one
of the ranger battalionsone thing about ranger school was it's
design um wilsonwe'd people laughthey are there to get the cream of the
cropfor special ops soldieryou're not getting any sleepnot getting any fooddrill sergeantyelling at you the whole time tell you
what to dohe wasn't sure that you could make itthere was at one pointbria told me at after completing itdidn't think he was going to make it i
wasn't prepared for him to saysagittal artisans are addictivesome people think that cat might have
had a hero complex which is why hewanted to go over and fight the battle
did he fighti believe that he did to a certain
degree i think that's not a bad thing ithink it's a great daythe cattle we said that viewpoint that
i'm going to be the one to step up andtake charge of the situationyou exactly what he's been throughhe understood the ramifications of what
could happenenjoying the time of peacehe joined the time of warwho really into himin the parking lot at the curtains
solutionjust want toas a person that are reallythe decision that you've madethe fact that you'reputting your life on the line to defend
the country so you could share that andthe finalwords that exchange with pat were out
had just talked that i come back in onepiecephoenix wellremember the day ten years cannot afford
in town and i thought it wasperfectreaction to what the city was feeling
becausecat was sort of infallible
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Chairman Waxman gives opening remarks.
August 1, 2007, Congressional Hearing of the death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who died due to friendly fire. However, the family of the fallen soldier and the American people were not told this information until a month after. In this clip, Rumsfeld apologizes for the situation being poorly handled.
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Chairman Waxman questions witnesses on a memo he received early on indicating that it was likely a case of fratricide.
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The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Rep. Elijah Cummings questions witnesses.
Tillman Military Scholars Richard Garcia, Melissa Stroh, Aaron and Bonnie Contreras. Highlights from the 6th annual Pat's Run held Saturday, April 17, 2010 at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium.
Feature and coverage courtesy of Fox Sports Arizona.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing entitled "Misleading Information from the Battlefield." The hearing focuses on the death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan and the capture and rescue of Army Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The Committee examines why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate Administration officials have been held accountable. Specialist Patrick Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman gives opening remarks.
Keith Olbermann asks Wes Clark about the cover-up of Tillman's murder. Clark says orders for such a whitewash would have to come from "the very top." The Rabbit Hole on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rabbitholenews
