Tillman, his father says, 'pushed himself on just about every level’. As a boy, he would carry around a book of quotations – Churchill, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln – circling and memorising the ones he found most inspiring.

'Pat had signed up to fight for three years, he was going to fight for three years. That was the deal,’ his father says

Apparently mindful of how the army might continue to use him in the event of his death, Pat had given Marie written instructions that 'I do not want military involvement’ at his funeral.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8046658/Betrayal-of-an-all-American-hero.
html, Mick Brown, October 2010