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Yet other Tillman family members are less reluctant to show Tillmanâs unique character, which was more complex than the public image of a gung-ho patriotic warrior. He started keeping a journal at 16 and continued the practice on the battlefield, writing in it regularly. (His journal was lost immediately after his death.) Mary Tillman said a friend of Patâs even arranged a private meeting with Chomsky, the antiwar author, to take place after his return from Afghanistan â a meeting prevented by his death. She said that although he supported the Afghan war, believing it justified by the Sept. 11 attacks, âPat was very critical of the whole Iraq war.â
Baer, who served with Tillman for more than a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, told one anecdote that took place during the March 2003 invasion as the Rangers moved up through southern Iraq.
âI can see it like a movie screen,â Baer said. âWe were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we werenât in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, âYou know, this war is so fâ illegal.â And we all said, âYeah.â Thatâs who he was. He totally was against Bush.â