Pat Tillman

American Society in Crisis: Non-Hostile Deaths Are Overtaking Veterans

Cilla McCain | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Murder, Veterans PTSD, Afghanistan, Veterans Day, Pat Tillman, Suicide, Noncombat, Nonhostile Deaths, Ptsd, Iraq, Military Families, Veterans, Congress, United States Senate, Josh Brolin, Paul Haggis, Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Hunter Glass, Video, Politics News
Cilla McCain

We finally have the Veteran's Administration admitting that America is losing a veteran to suicide (also classified as non-hostile death) every 80 minutes. This is indeed a public health crisis of limitless repercussions that stretch far beyond the deceased.

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Jason LaBarbera Honors Pat Tillman On Goalie Mask

AP | By JOHN MARSHALL | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Metallica, Video, Cardinals, Eddie Vedder, Phoenix, Nhl, Pat Tillman, Phoenix Coyotes, Arizona State, Jason LaBarbera, Impact News

By JOHN MARSHALL, Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Their faces hidden, many hockey goalies distinguish themselves with the elaborate designs paint...

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Michael Moore: Bin Laden 'Was Executed'

The Wrap | Brent Lang | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Jessica Lynch, Osama Bin Laden Death, Pakistan, Navy SEAL, Pat Tillman, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Fahrenheit 9/11, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, September 11, Michael Moore, Abbottabad, September 11th, Abbottabad Compound, Media News

Osama bin Laden wasn’t killed by a Navy SEAL team, he was straight up executed, Michael Moore told TheWrap on Wednesday....

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The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland

Karin Badt | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: If a Tree Falls, Pat Tillman, The Tilllman Story, Sometimes City Designer Baby, Helena Trestikova, Tom Ze, Sean Sellers, Jarmusch, Lina Mannheimer, Judy Lieff, Life After the Death Penalty, Billy the Kid, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Deaf Jam, A Man Came and Took Her, Everlasting Sorrow, Edn, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The most compelling films at the Thessaloniki festival this year all featured compelling individuals, from Pat Tillman (and family) to Tom Ze.

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Pat Tillman's Mother: McChrystal Should Be Removed From New Post

ABC News | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Stanley McChrystal, Pat Tillman Death, Pat Tillman Mom, Pat Tillman Mother, Military, Mary Tillman, Politics News

Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player turned Army Ranger who was tragically killed by friendly fire 7 years ago...

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General McChrystal's New Job: How Tone-Deaf Is This Administration?

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: President Obama, General Mcchrystal, Pat Tillman, Mcchrystal Troops, Mcchrystal Pat Tillman, Mcchrystal, Mcchrystal New Position, Politics News
Harry Shearer

How tone-deaf do you have to be to appoint a man tainted by the cover-up of the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman as head of an advisory panel helping service members' families?

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Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Los Angeles Times, Negotiations, Max Cleland, Robert McNamara, Vietnam War, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan Casualties, Afghanistan War, World News
Robert Naiman

Before you enlist or deploy, I think you have to ask yourself whether we still live in the same country that sent Max Cleland off to be maimed in a war in which our leaders did not believe.

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Accidental Fire

John Darnton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, New York Times, Army, Barney Darnton, Afghanistan, War, Friendly Fire, Media News
John Darnton

Why are the authorities so cowardly when it comes to admitting that sometimes mortars land in the wrong places and sometimes helicopter gunships shoot the wrong hillside?

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The Truth Behind the Story

Jen Grisanti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Joseph Campbell, Storytelling, James-Bonnet, Writing, The Tillman Story, Writing Advice, Los Angeles News
Jen Grisanti

The goal of the storyteller is to tap into the truth of the emotions inherent in the story that is being told. How do you find the truth? Through the...

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Palin Takes Cheap Shot at Michelle Obama

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Geoffrey Dunn, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain, Pat Tillman, Sarah Palin Vice President, Carly Fiorina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Geoffrey Dunn

2010-10-16-palin.jpgPalin's latest remarks were nasty towards the First Lady and thoroughly insensitive to the memory of Pat Tillman and to his parents

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Soaring Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Finally Complete

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hoover Dam, Hoover Dam Bridge, Hoover Dam Bypass, Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, Landmarks, Colorado River, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Transportation, Mike O'Callaghan, Pat Tillman, Mike O'Callaghan Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Slidefullscreen, Travel News

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (Associated Press) — A soaring bridge that will let drivers bypass Hoover Dam – and steer clear of its security checkpo...

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Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers

Andrew Bickford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Pat Tillman Death, Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher, Janine Wedel, Heroes, Shadow Elite, World News
Andrew Bickford

"Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers.

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An Interview With Marie Tillman

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marie Tillman, Scholarship, Tom Matlack, Pat Tillman, The Tillman Foundation, Military, Video, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

The Pat Tillman Foundation is a national leader in providing resources and educational support to veterans, active service members and their dependents.

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Pat Tillman's Brother: 'I Wish He Would've Lit These F--king Idiots Up'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Video, Real Time With Bill Maher, Nfl, Pat Tillman Brother, Richard Tillman, Pat Tillman's Brother, Sports News

Pat Tillman died more than six years ago in Afghanistan, but his death remains a flash point to this day. Most recently, Tillman's younger brother Ric...

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War Fever at the Times: A Five-Day Log

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dexter Filkins, Cia, Eric Schmitt, Pat Tillman, Pakistan, David Rohde Escapes, David Petraeus, New York Times Magazine, Stanley McChrystal, New York Times, Taliban, Afghanistan, Lewis Sorley, David Rohde, Media News
David Bromwich

Made nervous by signs that President Obama will not push for a bigger war in Afghanistan, the New York Times is showing what the rest of his time in office will be like if he does not cooperate.

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Stop Using Our Soldiers As Political Propaganda

Etan Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soldiers, Iraq War Propaganda, US Troops, Iraq War, US Soldiers, Troops Propaganda, Pat Tillman, War Propaganda, Politics News
Etan Thomas

When it comes down to it, who is looking out for the troops' best interest? They deserve more than simple praise. They deserve to be told the truth about why in fact they went to war in the first place.

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Four Star Trek: The Wrath of General Stanley McChrystal

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Stanley McChrystal, Joe Biden, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Star Trek, Sarah Palin, Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Rolling Stone, Spock, Captain Kirk, Comedy News
Robert Brenner

As that great military strategist Sarah Palin once said, "I am merely attacking from a different direction."

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Pat Tillman's Family Is Not Alone

Cilla McCain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Suicides, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, Military Murder, Pat Tillman, Colonel Mike Stahlman Military Investigations, Iraq, The Tillman Story, Military Families, Veterans, Colonel Philip Shue, Politics News
Cilla McCain

There are hundreds of military families determined to convince the U.S. government of the need for a major overhaul on the investigative policies and procedures in unattended soldier deaths.

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Juvenile Justice Military Style

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Omar Khadr, Afghan Civilian Deaths, Military Commissions, World News
Christopher Brauchli

It's a valuable lesson we're being taught by the administration: 15-year-olds may be treated as adults when they misbehave if those pretending to be adults believe that is appropriate punishment.

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Mary Tillman: Stanley McChrystal's Yale Appointment 'Insulting'

nydailynews.com | Gatecrasher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Pat Tillman, The Northeast, Mary Tillman, Michael Moore, Yale, College News

The mother of Pat Tillman and filmmaker Michael Moore have something to say about Yale University's hiring of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Mary Tillman, ...

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A Mother's Love: The Tillman Story

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Pat Tillman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Josh Brolin introduced a special screening of The Tillman Story at MoMA last week. The documentary's "voice," the Oscar-winning actor explained that h...

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Operation Tillman: America's Irrepressible Military Families Get a Big Boost

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military, Afghanistan, Pat Tillman, War, Iraq, Peace, The Tillman Story, Mary Tillman, Veterans, Rick Reyes, Politics News
Jeff Norman

All of us whose mission it is to make sure veterans get the care they need and deserve are heartened by the possibilities surrounding the release of The Tillman Story.

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'Tillman Story' Director: Media Bought Bush Spin On Tillman Death To Sell 'Hero' Tale

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Abrams, Amir Bar-Lev, Tillman Story, The Tillman Story, Pat Tillman, Media News

The director of the documentary about Pat Tillman says the media bears some responsibility for the Bush administration's lies and cover-up and the pub...

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ReThink Interview: Amir Bar-Lev, Director of The Tillman Story (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fratricide, Pat Tillman, Donald Rumsfeld, Patrick Tillman, Rethink Interviews, Iraq, Nfl, Amir Bar-Lev, Rethink Reviews, Military, Jonathan Kim, Friendly Fire, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, The Tillman Story, Amir Bar-Lev Interview, Tillman Football, Tillman Cover Up, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I talked with director Amir Bar-Lev about why Americans weren't more outraged when it was revealed that the made-for-Hollywood stories of Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies.

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The Tillman Story -- Just Give Us Some Truth

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Pat Tillman, Pat Tillman Death, Afghanistan War, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Tillman, who walked away from a multi-million dollar contract as a professional football player to enlist in the Army Rangers after the 9/11 attacks, is the subject of a new moving documentary.

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