Quote #1
"Whether the army was concerned about Tillman’s views or felt he had served its purpose, he was offered an honourable discharge and the chance to take up a new football contract. He refused. 'Pat had signed up to fight for three years, he was going to fight for three years. That was the deal,’ his father says"

Quote #2
'They gave him a medal and he didn’t deserve it. And that’s no insult to Pat to say that. He didn’t need a decoration. He was an outstanding human being and an outstanding soldier.’

Quote #3
"Tillman, his father says, 'pushed himself on just about every level’."

The Telegraph: Betrayal of an all-American Hero

By Mick Brown