since we've been here, and I miss the sound of her voice." "As always, Marie is on my mind," he wrote in a journal entry dated July 20, 2002. Tillman's journals also make clear that the hardest thing for him was being away from his wife. I could definitely see it being a little annoying at times." And probably 80 percent of the guys are from age 18 to 22, and it's just a lot of young testosterone in a confined area. Army Ranger Kyle Jones, who served alongside Tillman, told ABC News, "There are 50 guys in one huge room and you live there together for 14 weeks. Tillman joined the Army at age 25 and found himself utterly frustrated by his surroundings.įormer U.S. Of course, we all understand the necessity of defense but that does not excuse the fact that a young man I would not trust with my canteen is walking about armed." One thing I find myself despising is the sight of all these guns in the hands of children. In his journal entry dated July 25, 2002, Tillman described his fellow soldiers: "They're resentful, ungrateful, lazy, weak and unvirtuous. But Tillman's doubts about his decision surfaced during boot camp, according to Tillman's journal entries. Once her husband's mind was made up, Marie Tillman said, there was no talking him out of it. "This intervention just sort of degenerated into this kind of yelling match and people crying and it was a kind of a disaster," said Krakauer, who wrote the acclaimed "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Tillman's family organized an intervention. Not everyone in his family agreed with his decision. I'm no longer satisfied with the path I've been following. These last few years, and especially after recent events, I've come to appreciate just how shallow and insignificant my role is. "Sports embodied many of the qualities I deem meaningful: courage, toughness, strength. "For much of my life I've tried to follow a path I believed important," he wrote. Tillman's personal journals and letters reveal an intelligent, sensitive and loyal man who loved his wife, family and country. For more reasons that I care to list, my job is remarkable. My job is challenging, enjoyable and strokes my vanity enough to fool me into thinking it's important. "It is my belief that I could continue to play football for the next seven or eight years and create a very comfortable lifestyle. "My life at this point is relatively easy," Pat Tillman wrote in a letter to his family dated April 8, 2002. Tillman's personal journals and letters to his wife, Marie, seen publicly for the first time, offer a glimpse into the life of the man that very few people knew. "Who takes a perfectly perfect life and ruins it? A perfectly happy wife and marriage and jeopardizes it? Ahhh! If I do not strangle someone while I'm here, I was touched by an angel." "Who does this?" Tillman wrote in a journal entry dated July 28, 2002. Hillenbrand, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store.Krakauer pieces together Tillman's story in his new book, "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman," to be released Tuesday. To send a flower arrangement or to plant trees in memory of In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Priests for Life Visitation Monday 3-9 p.m. Hillenbrand (nee Floyd) dearest father of Theresa (Greg) Gunn, Holly (Aaron) Thompson and Beth (Ryan) Campbell dear grandfather of 7 granddaughters and 7 grandsons loving brother of twin, John ?Jack? (Lisa) Hillenbrand, Kathleen (Lonnie) Willmann, Margie (Ed) Koopman, Pat (Fred) Sansone, Mary (Don) Dierker and Marty Rocca our dear brother-in-law, uncle, great-uncle, godfather, cousin and friend.īill was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Columbia, MO)įuneral Tuesday, December 14, 10:15 a.m. fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church Friday, December 10, 2010.
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