“Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it’s playing sports or whether it’s just living or whatever you’re going to do. In my opinion you should be passionate about it or else, why do it?” These words spoken by Pat Tillman exemplifies the type of person he was. He was a hardworking person who earned many awards. He died in the biggest sport of all.
Patrick Daniel Tillman was born November 6, 1976 in San Jose, California to Mary and Patrick Tillman. Tillman was the oldest of the three sons. When Tillman was a kid he always did the right thing. Tillman took offense one day when a friend of his was being bullied so, Tillman beat the aggressor up so bad that he was sentenced to thirty days in a juvenile detention center. Tillman excelled in football while going to Leland high school. Pat lead his high school team to the central coast division. Tillman’s talent on the field earned a scholarship to Arizona State university to play football. Tillman was not that big going in to play college football. He was only 5 feet and 11 inches and weighed two hundred pounds. Pat was extremely successful on the field and highly successful in the classroom. Tillman helped his team make it to the rose bowl along with an undefeated season as a linebacker for Arizona State University. One of the many awards Tillman won was the Pac-10 Defensive player of the year. He was also selected as the most valuable player of the year at Arizona State University. Another award Tillman won was the Clyde B. Smith Academic Award. He won that award in 1996 and 1997.
After graduating college, Tillman entered the 1998 NFL draft. Pat Tillman was chosen by the Arizona Cardinals in 1998 during the draft. Eventually Pat secured a starting spot on the Cardi...
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...he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting." These words spoken by Mary Tillman angry at the administration, angry at the military for covering this up that she was so disgusted by the way they handled this. Tillman was a football star with a 3.84 GPA.
In Pat’s lifetime he was a great football player who set records in the Arizona Cardinal family. He was respected by his fellows teammates during his football career in 1998 to 2001. He was also a great student in the classroom. He won many academic awards while he was at Arizona State University including the Clyde B. Smith Academic Award in 1996 and 1997. When Pat joined the army he did not want to be treated special. The sergeant made sure that happened by telling the commander of Pat’s platoon to treat him like everybody else.
Pat Tillman's Story No one knows the real story of Pat Tillman. On April 23, 2004 news headlines filled the air waves with tragic news that Pat Tillman was killed in action yesterday, fighting in Afghanistan. While on a patrol with his detachment through eastern Afghanistan, the detachment was ambushed. When the ambush was quelled, sadly, Pat Tillman was dead.
...at his story had to be told to the world so that her son would not die in vain. In conclusion, Mamie Till eloquently summed up the importance of her son’s moment in history by saying, “Emmett was the catalyst that started the Civil Rights movement. Because when people saw what had happened to this little 14 year old boy, they knew that not only were black men in danger but black children as well. And it took something to stir the people up and let them know that either we are going to stand together or we are going to fall together. I do know that without the shedding of blood there is no redemption” (The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till). The media gave unprecedented coverage to the Emmett Till murder, funeral and trial. They reported it with a passion. The media’s drive share this story ultimately made a permanent change in our country’s attitude toward racism.
Ever since that day he has been a quarterback after his dad put him as one, and scored 4
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...voted an All-American and served as co-captain in both the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl.” (http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/huffsam.shtml) After attending West Virginia University for four years and being a key member on their football team, Huff’s talent took him further than the college level of football. His athletic ability made it possibly for him to have a shot in the National Football League. Huff was drafted in the third round of the 1956 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. Huff continued his professional football career with the New York Giants until 1964 when the Washington Redskins offered him almost twice as much pay as the New York Giants did. Huff then retired in 1968.
The first thing someone would notice about Pat Tillman was not his size or athletic ability; it was his devotion to everything he loved, be it his family, friends, sport, country, or virtues. Being raised by a family with a hi...
On March 24, 1976, Peyton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archie and Olivia Manning. He was the second of three boys. Cooper and Eli are his siblings. Peyton developed his skills from watching his dad play for the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings. In 1991, Peyton became the starting quarterback for Isidore Newman High in New Orleans where he felt comfortable playing with Cooper, the top receiver. After being recruited by several different colleges, Peyton chose the Tennessee Volunteers. Under Peyton’s leadership, the volunteers steadily climbed to a high national ranking. Also while playing for Tennessee Peyton set forty-two conference, school, and NCAA records. Although he was finished in three years and was expected to turn pro, he chose to stay with Tennessee one more year. In his last year with the Volunteers he led them to the National Championship in the Orange Bowl. The following year Peyton, the number one overall NFL draft pick, became the starting quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts.
Sean Parnell was a normal college student, partying on the weekends, going to class when he wanted, and being as carefree as one could be. A year later, he becomes the leader of a forty-man platoon at the ripe age of twenty-four. After being the leader of the platoon for only eight short months Parnell claims he “had enough knowledge to know that he didn’t know anything” (page 27). The job of ...
As the reader can distinguish throughout the book, both men went in completely different paths after starting in the same position. The difference between both of their stories is the author’s positive role model and the other effects of the military academy. It does not have to specifically be the military academy to shape someone to be successful, but discipline and a father-like figure can make the difference. My father is fortunately in my life, and has shaped me into the person I am today. He has taught me numerous lessons that have gotten me to this point in my life. I am privileged enough to also have close successful cousins who often give me advice on how to become as successful as they are. With the help of a positive role model and a positive environment, the ability to become a good person, as well as successful can be obtained.
During the Vietnam War, the first platoon (approximately forty men) was lead by a young officer named William Calley. Young Calley was drafted into the US Army after high school, but it did not take long for him to adjust to being in the army, with a quick transition to the lifestyle of the military, he wanted to make it his career. In high school, Calley was a kind, likable and “regular” high school student, he seemed to be a normal teenager, having interest in things that other boys his age typically had. He was never observed acting in a cruel or brutal way. In Vietnam, Calley was under direct order of company commander, Captain Ernest Medina, whom he saw as a role model, he looked up to Medina. (Detzer 127).
Every year he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the government, particularly the police force, to keep our country safe and thriving. And twelve years ago, when his mother died of breast cancer, at the age of 77, he put three million dollars out of his own pocket into cancer research and treatment. Despite his success, he kept his kind and charitable heart, and because of this he lived the best possible life he could and improved other’s lives while doing