In the spring of 2002, Pat Tillman, a defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from his multi-million-dollar contract to enlist in the U.S. Army Rangers.* In the spring of 2002, Pat Tillman Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 – April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. He was killed in action in Afghanistan. , a defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from his multi-million-dollar contract to enlist in the U.S. Army Rangers. Football "just seems so unimportant compared to everything that has taken place," he said. In April 2004 Specialist Tillman died in a firefight fire·fight n. An exchange of gunfire, as between infantry units. in Afghanistan. Now a two-part series in the Washington Post confirms what the Army only partly acknowledged earlier this year: Tillman was killed by his comrades. Tillman's platoon, hobbled by a broken-down Humvee and ordered to search a village, split up; in the dusk, the two halves mistakenly exchanged fire. The grimly named "friendly fire" occurs in all wars (in the French and Indian War French and Indian War North American phase of a war between France and Britain to control colonial territory (1754–63). The war's more complex European phase was the Seven Years' War. Col. George Washington knocked up the blazing muskets of his men with his sword because they were firing at each other in the woods in the dark). So do tight-lipped tight·lipped also tight-lipped adj. 1. Having the lips pressed together. 2. Loath to speak; close-mouthed. See Synonyms at silent. higher-ups. Tillman served bravely--as have, and as do, thousands of brothers in arms. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace's Odes (iii 2.13). The line can be rendered in English as: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country," or: "It is sweet and seemly to die for one's country. . |
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