Off On A Tangent

Pat Tillman's memorial ceremony.

His brother Rich gets up an tells it like it is:

He hadn't written anything, he said, and with the starkest honesty, he asked mourners to hold their spiritual bromides.

"Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.''

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