Replying to RIP Pat Tillman

My senior research paper was about this guy. I feel he embodies how people in America should be. Pat Tillman was a former football star for the Arizona Cardinals. He had everything he wanted, the job he wanted, and fame and fortune going his way. But he had that feeling that he was needed for something bigger. His grandfather was involved with Pearl Harbor and his father involved in Vietnam. He was quoted in a SportsCenter interview saying, 'I mean, my great grandfather was in Pearl Harbor, and what have I done for anyone else? Nothing' He gave up his comfortable lifestyle to join his brother in being an Army Ranger. He was sent over to Iraq and I hadn't heard anything of him until today when I switched on SportsCenter and saw the headline that he had been killed. Now, everyone doesn't have to agree with the war, but the least you can do is support the military...the people who it doesn't matter if they agree with the reason for the war or not, they have to go get 'er done. I dont know if he believe in what he was fighting for, but I sure as hell know he believed in who he was fighing for and that's all that is important. I wanted to see, if when he got back from Iraq, if he was going to be compated to Ted Williams, but it just isn't going to happen. So, I'm just letting everyone know that another good person was lost in this war...and that it's been happening way to much.


-i ski hard and drink harder-

peace...in the middle east, what...