“Pat isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead,” he told the 2,000 or so people in attendance and the television audience watching on ESPN. “He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fucking dead.”
…More than two years after Pat Tillman died, Richard — like the rest of the Tillman family and many of Pat’s close friends — is still trying to keep at bay the people and institutions who might want to use his brother’s name for their own interests. The family is still suspicious of the media, still angry at the government, still convinced the Army tried to glorify Pat as a war hero when it knew he’d been gunned down by his fellow soldiers.
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