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Cat,
I think Pat would understand, and I hope he would approve of the President making a statement about his life and his service.

In a way, Pat can and will continue to serve even though he has reached his eternal home.

A statement about Pat's integrity of spirit and purposefulness of action would help the soldiers in the field - and would help those who haven't reconciled their desire to serve v. their desire to live a normal life make the choice.

At a time when people are thinking that we might need to return to the draft (oral flatulence that it is) a story about a great man who could have chosen to live the life most young men dream of, and chose instead to serve his nation might be the thing to steel their nerves and get them down to the recruiting station.

If we are indeed having difficulties recruiting, I don't think Pat would mind a telling of his life's story added to a speech where the President asks for others to follow his example and become men of purpose, integrity, and honor.

I pray that those who hear his story understand the sacrifice and the purpose of it, and I pray for his family.

May God Bless you Pat, Thanks.

Last week, our area--Green Bay WI--buried two Marines few people knew before their heroic deaths in Iraq. I grieved for them and their families. I grieve for Pat Tillman's family now.

The hard thing about war is that young men and young women die. The pain we feel about Pat Tillman's death is that we all knew of him. It's like a kick in the gut, and it brings the war home as deeply as it does if he were a member of the family.