American Athletes who gave their lives in service

Months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Pat Tillman paused his NFL career to enlist in the Army and fight in Afghanistan. But instead of going there, Tillman’s Army Ranger battalion was first sent to Iraq for the U.S. invasion. By 2003, soldiers remember Tillman

“this war is so fucking illegal.” The next year, Tillman died in a friendly fire accident in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon, however, said that the…