Tillman’s example of freedom faith and sacrifice
A tribute to Pat Tillman praising his enlistment after 9 11 and his humility while urging readers to honor his memory. The piece contrasts sports heroism with real war, urging respectful language, and calls for unity in defending freedom as a lived ideal. It underscores Tillman’s impact on perspectives about courage and civic duty.
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Pat Tillman
W.H. Auden
NFL
Arizona Cardinals
Army Rangers
Tillman
Afghanistan
Marines baptized under fire in Fallujah battlefield rite
Echo Company Marines asked Protestant chaplain to perform battlefield baptism in the ruined school courtyard where a mortar killed two Marines earlier. Four Marines—Hawkins Jones Hayes and Fuller—undressed, dunked individually as two dozen peers watched, in a ceremony honoring fallen and wounded.
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Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times
Fallujah
Iraq
Echo Company
2Nd Battalion
1St Regiment
1St Marine Division
Lance Cpl
Chris Hawkins
Kansas City
Lance
Robert Zurheide
Tucson
Ariz
Brad Shuder
Radetski
Kuwait
Sullivan
Ind
Hawkins
Jones
Kenneth Hayes
Redding
Calif
Michael Fuller
Spring
Texas
Hell
Fuller
AIDS funding discussed with Nussle by Iowa bishop
Iowa bishop Philip Hougen told House Budget Chairman Jim Nussle he supported increased AIDS research spending but urged more funds. Nussle, wary of exact amounts, underscored the need for international effort, while acknowledging his influence on the budget process as committee chair. Negotiations on the 2005 budget proceed with hearings to follow.
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Washington
Iowa
House
Jim Nussle
Philip Hougen
Southeastern Iowa Synod
The
Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Iowa City
Nussle
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Bush
Hougen
Senate
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