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...Vietnamese were going to let him go... I mean that took cojones, donating another three and a half to four years of his life to stay in prison, rather than be the one guy who gets to walk away: "Hey, fellas, I'll say hello to everybody." Pat Tillman, giving up his NFL career to fight - and die - for his country, is like that for me, too. But most of the political structure I get so disappointed at. We're reduced to a society that is sitting here arguing about who used the "N word" 30 years...
...social equality," which some feared would encourage intermarriage of white women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey and Our Coon-Flavored President. South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman said, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
Parents are making changes too. Alice and Craig Tillman enforce a library-like atmosphere--no telephone calls, music, TV or video games--while their four kids do homework. Karen Cross, Sterling's mother, says she and her husband were angry and confused when Sterling's older brother and sister got poor grades. "Knowing it's a good school system, you assume that once you show that you're educated and involved parents, the teachers will take it from there," she says. "So when the problems persist, you think it can only be because you're black." Gradually, through conversations with...
...This investigation in no way diminished the bravery and sacrifice displayed by Corporal Tillman." LIEUT. GENERAL PHILIP KENSINGER JR., announcing that Pat Tillman, the football star who gave up a $3.6 million contract to join the Army, was probably killed by so-called friendly fire in Afghanistan last month...