April 24, 2004
America Mourns Pat Tillman
Pat Tillman is dead. :(
It was all over the news yesterday and will be there again today and tomorrow. He was killed during fighting in Afghanistan. I borrowed this picture of him from Associated Press.
When I first heard about Tillman quitting the National Football League a couple of years ago to become an Army Ranger, I didn't really know too much about him, as he had played for the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC, and I mostly follow the San Diego Chargers and the AFC.
I remember I had a bad feeling about it at the time, though, a sense that Pat Tillman's future would have this kind of ending. This was a story I expected to hear some day, and I'm sad now that I've heard it. :(
America has a new hero. I'm sad that Pat Tillman's family and friends have lost one of theirs. :(
Posted at 4:20 AM in In Memoriam, Sports, USA, World