1) Tillman, a standout defensive player for the Arizona Cardinals after 1998, spurned a three-year, $3.6 million contract to enlist in the Army, moved to action by the events of 11 September 2001.

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2) While surveying Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, Tillman was killed in a firefight on 22 April 2004.

3) Pat Tillman was the professional football player who turned down a lucrative career and joined the U.S. Army in 2002, but was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 -- by his fellow troops, a fact suppressed by top military commanders and members of President George W. Bush's administration.