Marie Tillman didn’t have to ask, she already knew.
Three soldiers and a chaplain waited outside her Seattle office to break the dreaded news she had already begun processing. Pat Tillman, her husband of two years, a former NFL safety with the Arizona Cardinals and Army Ranger, had been killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, only three weeks after arriving in the war-torn country.
Marie remembers that night as though it happened minutes ago, recalling every sad detail. There was the...
