Pat Tillman Foundation video highlighting the life of Pat Tillman through photos and interviews with friends, coaches, mentors, and peers.
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was one the appeal of the intellectualsbecause he was onepeople should know about a man like this
caseyou don't find people like this anymore
todaythere are two senatorsthe downtown metropolisin the outdoor paradise show for the
city or pass it on the groundbills perceptions silicon valley that
that's how the billing dot com eventit out for south and then you go down
againgo to the reservoir and mr goss rope
swing and climbing trees and otherfactorsreleases spectacular places hiking
trails all throughout iti think a lot of those kinds ofoutdoor adventure activitiesreally helped patespecially development through inventors
personallythat was the oldest his three brothersgrowing up with kevin and richardtheir house was the neighborhood hot
spotmom the system andaxa teachernet mister some of the
lawyers has a suburb of well educatedindividuals anywhere from an early age
sex offender because they were so wellon thatnine at ten timesif i drive up littlefield at the
drivewaypeople are outside in the front on lawn
chairs having a conversation talkingabout the latest book foryou know the social issues in their
house they hadnot even a t_v_ for a while soyou know they were really it encourage
maybe even by default to being outdoorsandhave excelled at several sportswho when he failed to make the varsity
baseball team is a high-school freshmansteve allen to devote himself to
footballi want to talk to him and saidthe uh... you know pat you're not built
like a football player and is longing togo into the weight romantic strongand i have a football player who played
college footballand i said well i think that that's a
mistake and we all know that i was wrongon that count the worst thing you
possibly doif you don't want that to do something
is telling that he couldn't do itdid you start with yousix positiondance to that running backlike back there strong safety suddenly
turned hunter just returnif that was on the feel of the timegrizzard ever give up together to during
the gamesbasically his leadership easy really led
the way and this year she'd been senseslevel usually people follow through the
sentences they seem to want recessionshas caused a lot of steelyou know when it came up in the
interview she and they're still quite astop at first it was humility you're
always somewhat as well as i do this andtake some credit for yourselftowards being a legislative blitz
tackling his years ago on the groundpad one of the bottomdistillate expanded to see if every
singlefilm one brothers intensity into the
classroomwith similar resultsheated carefully all-american all packed
and hurt the defense attorney here hewanted to be first-team academic
all-americathe receipts in a in all the testing on
the nethe did the workpasses materials he set up these got the
whole desperate comes up brady billlet's get abouthansen was heading into his fourth
season with the arizona cardinals inseptember of two thousand onewhen everything changedsit around and foundeffectively bring their ownpetrie differentlyice on the next dayand there's something in his eyes and
see how effective green was nice to asiatonight eleven desirability from haitithe american flaggot added clip on the meeting room
window the defense's routethis day therefor a whilei don't know what type of opposite so
intimate themyou know who the hell knows i retire a
little ones that i would like to be herebut you know you never know all the
sudden on the phone he goes a frank wantyou worry about your that clientsi'm thinking about doing something
different mylife at one of his decisionto stanford cell you need to explain it
he didn'treading itexplained itself so what is it really
dissecthad thrown never give another interviewin may of two thousand two g_m_ kevin
enlisted together in the army rangersspecial forces the train for high-risk
missionsspecial forces carolineearth forefront of the war in
afghanistan in two thousand one and twothousand two and beyond when they sign
uppay this is it just started this
interviewthis one it's not much utility area and
let's go for itin april of two thousand four pat and
kevin two men were deployed toafghanistanpatrolling rugged territory along the
eastern borderembedded in the countrysideor pockets of taliban fightersthe mission of pat's platoon wasto carry out of such a sweet operationin an area of eastern afghanistan where
the taliban have been especially havebeenaccording to a u_s_ military spokesman
film and died after a fire fight withanti-pollution malicious forces in
afghanistan thefought honorably and brain waves of last
moments of his life he did everything hewas asked to dohe seems to have volunteered to go
beyonduh... what his unit was deployed to doand he certainly never waveredunder firehis status as a celebritydidn't alter pad singular stylehit and changed the rose by zerowere transferred flopsjatewhat's the deal
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Pat Tillman was a professional football player with the Arizona Cardinals.
In response to the September 11, 2001 incident, he passed up a $3.6 million contract and joined the Army. His sacrifice became made him a symbol of patriotism and a poster child for Army recruiters.
Pat Tillman came to his senses and turned against the wars. Through friends and family, he made contact with anti-war icon Noam Chomsky.
Perhaps Tillman was ready to make a public statement of opposition to the wars, which would have been a public relations catastrophe for the Army. We will never know. Perhaps the Army knew he was going to go public with a statement of opposition. We will never know.
Pat Tillman took three bullets through the head on April 22, 2004. He was shot at close range by his own men while on paatrol in Afghanistan.
A massive coverup followed, in which the public was told that Tillman had been killed by hostile fire. He was awarded the Silver star. The conspiracy to deceive Tillman's grieving family and the public went to the highest levels of the Army, and centered on one Lt. General Stanley McChrystal.
Eventually, the fraud was exposed, and a half-hearted congressional investigation followed.
Pat Tillman is still dead. His mother, Mary Tillman, still grieves. Lt. General Stanley McChrystal was promoted to supreme commander of the Afghan theater.
The 8th Annual Pat's Run took place in Tempe, AZ on April 21, 2012 with more than 28,000 walkers and runners participating to honor the legacy of Pat Tillman. Proceeds from Pat's Run benefit the Tillman Military Scholars program. More than 30 current Tillman Military Scholars attended Pat's Run this year and helped produce this video to say thank you to participants, sponsors and volunteers.
A full wrap up of the festivities surrounding the opening of the Hoover Dam Bridge that is officially named the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.
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. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton questions Secretary Rumsfeld on apparent gaps in his preparation to testify.
Professional football player Pat Tillman joined the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire during a gun battle. But as Erica Hill reports, the story told by the government was quite different.
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. Rep. Bruce Braley questions whether edits were made to original reports about the incident that resulted in Tillman's death.
What's next? Tillman Military Scholar Dennis Robinson's take on the legacy of Pat Tillman. "Let's us, in the spirit of Pat Tillman, do something unconventional."
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. Rep. Elijah Cummings questions Specialist Patrick Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman about communications inside the White House related to his brother.
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.
