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24 kwi 2004 · On Friday, Pat Tillman was mourned as a fallen fighter in the war on terror and hailed as a hero who forsook celebrity in a society obsessed with it -- one who walked wordlessly away from the...
Patrick Daniel Tillman Jr. (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
This is a list of players who left the National Football League to join the military in a time of war, including those who were drafted, and died in wars. Fourteen died in World War II, two in the Vietnam War and one in the War in Afghanistan.
11 kwi 2022 · On April 22, 2004, former NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan — and it may not have been an accident. After the 9/11 attacks, Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative football career to join the U.S. Army.
23 kwi 2004 · April 23, 2004 -- Pat Tillman, a former NFL player who swapped a lucrative football career to enlist in the U.S. Army, was killed in action in southeastern Afghanistan, U.S. military sources said today.
22 kwi 2021 · Arguably one of the most well-known American soldiers to die was Pat Tillman, who gave up a million-dollar NFL career to enlist in the Army. He joined the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment,...
29 wrz 2023 · On April 22, 2004, former NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan — or, at least, that’s what his family and the public were led to believe. Prior to the 9/11 terror attacks, Pat Tillman had been a star college football player who was then drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in 1998.
