Pat Tillman's hero was Rachel Corrie

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Excerpted from, Boots on the ground by dusk, My tribute to Pat Tillman By Mary Tillman.

 

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"The article is about Rachel Corrie, the 23 year old peace activist from Olympia, Washington

who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, trying to protect the

home of a Palestinian doctor and his family.

 

I remember picking up the article from the same spot more than a year ago and asking Pat, "Who's this?"

 

"That's my hero," Pat said. 'She was a stud; she had a lot of guts.''