Kevin Tillman describes the attack on his brother’s convoy

During a Congressional Hearing on Pat Tillman’s death, his brother Kevin described the circumstances of the attack.

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are recognized mister harderhe's representativeof the children family and been at asked me to hold this hearingand uh... and then the least talkie instrument panel this problem but at theweather recognize him to pursue any questions he wants to be instrumentwho is a humanist chairabrasion number davis for members of his committee for all of this hearingposition as the long-awaitedpoussiere emailsset aside until such time thatalmon stall procedures to be exhausted and i think that tillman serveexercise tremendous amount resturant patientsto live on the familyone thank you for thatand also thank you formuch of itbut this is a phrase this as you can print retain poweri think value departure truththis is a procedural pointtuna sandwiches to talk to both sides it could be you're awesomethe bill was so you go backinitial comment card you kill a noblebeing therepiece the situation was as i understand itbut the picture was still open to cereal sponsors one workyour brother was an issue which is where where you are assignedandydiscard took placewhich you probably heardbut we do not take part inchoo-choo char will closethoughdutch happened step-by-stepthrough that day and thenthe subsequent days until such time that you havebecome aware of thaton your brother was killed by for me foruser special onthey're involvedspirit of the uh... the uh... implicitly we werewe're broken downg_m_t_ we're stuck in awe're stuck in the air forabout six hoursand uh... i'm not privy any conversations with the p_l_o_ reinastuff because ive i was on theater-goers a mark nineteen andone sure that we hadthey told the p ldecision was made to slip with tune-up one go to bump two men areany other take a broken-down g_n_p_up to the hardball roadso they took offthe first cerealthe cat was inleft about ten minutes before we didand then we followed suit both someone made a decisionnot to go up thatroad because it is too difficultwell they traveled into itsiwan traveled into a kcereal to decided to fall right behind syrian into that canyonand i actually saw the last vehicle entered into the canyon prevent i'di really know whatthe plan was specifically but you general feeland up one short we ended up fallingi don't know how close but i do with their i was in the vehicle was about tostart in the in open the rear of the elementssymbolthey weren't through pass group went throughand had no issueswe went through angry at some point in the inside the canyon got hitwhat has what as theas a serial exhale exited the canyonthe first vehicle ended up in gaugingthe uh...d_m_s_ soldiero'neilland the whole truth about that whole cereal on the top right side which wasan entire swan in a villageby the time we pulled up it was he was still result yeltsin dogs we pull upand i'm just sitting on the bottom so after all that stuff happens we end upslowly working our way throughandi have found out about forty five minutes later the pat had diedalumhanded intell me how they justtami feel last worst practices of person or it was i think about itland-based impairment that's a veryyou can you know it's nowheretillage in ourand so i asked for my n_c_o_ as i said you were spat he wouldn't answerasked again told meand uh... about five minutes after thatpick that up in a helicopter and took them awayand they picked me up about an hour half laterit took me awayand from that pointi was with salvos impact with pat's body palestiniansalerno then bog rome eventuallyi went back with passed byrights pass bodyteacher david overin fact san jose california and then i found outabout a month in two years laterthat uh...it was in fact fratricide economy wasn't sosubsidiestime off thetruly nowwhen you asked what had happeneddo you recall what the exact wording was that you would like to share it with youdude me was that it was very bad list that was running activist outside by theviability was running up a hill inductee guideessentially got shot dead onand it made sense in my head becauseto the right to be were surrounded by hill's so i was really was a lot ofspecifics to itbut i thinkrelentless when that stuff happensit's it's tough toprocess a lot of such anyway so it's likeokay and your focus is the fact that they're goneand that's what'sthat's your focusand that's it was news coverage generalhe was with o'neillfarmzone opeth told me he was he wished he would be a running up the hill andthey got shotwhen he was told not to tell meand that's why i got a general onpride o'neill was the one with pathe was told not saying things like all mike who was with pat i wanted torespond i was with themspoke with o'neill he told megenerally what happened but you eliminatedpretty much everythinghe just gave me a brief little synopsis andand that was thati can press a very hardfor whatever reasonand that i found out of a monthtwo days later thank you mister hunter mister mitchellpleased to have you with us

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