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I really cant put my finger on one quality that he had. he just had so many and his brother and the rest of their family are exactly like them. >> larry: mary is going to be with us. pat is going to be leaving us with the two guys, we will meet two other women who faced the same thing but how did you handle, patrick, get all the other circumstances, the loss of a child? >> i didnt. i havent yet. im still working on it. its different. the gut-wrenching is not like it used to be. >> larry: not sup...

He was constantly depressed. he was hurt on the inside. but the others didnt seem to show any remorse or feel that they had done anything wrong. >> larry: you think the person who killed pat knew he killed him? >> i think -- >> larry: such a flurry that you wouldnt know? >> i think he knows it now but then, i dont think so. >> larry: when you hear this, pat, when you first met these young men, how did you react? >> when i first met them? >> larry: yeah. >> well, ive been picking at bits and pete...

They didnt lose 40 men in the unit. they lost -- >> ed that yarks i understand you were told your boy was killed by insurgents, right? >> yes. >> larry: when did they tell you the truth? >> two years later? >> larry: how did they do that? >> the -- i didnt do it myself, i couldnt have. i cried for two years day after day week after week, and so on and so on. >> you suspected something? >> of course, i knew from the start. >> larry: how would you know? >> because of his unit. just about everyone ...

No black ber floirks ipod, no laptop. unthinkable? i think i would have a hard time. we have it all ahead, larry, at the top of the hour. >> i support that vacation. sanjay, 10 eastern, 7 pacific. we are back, mary tillman, she is called danny, she remains with us, the mother of pat tillman this incredible special documentary will appear friday. joining us now nadia mccaffrey, the mother of sergeant patrick mccaffrey who was killed in iraq on june 2, 2004. and karen meredis is here, motor of lie...

Rangers an it was their first -- >> larry: scared? >> not just scared but lack of control, meaning there are people above them on the ground that were in charge of controlling their fires and i think there was a grave lack of control. >> larry: did you ever talk to them? >> i did not. >> larry: why not? >> never any opportunity to. >> larry: never saw him again? >> no. >> larry: why didnt you talk to him? >> i addressed him. once we returned back to salerno in afghanistan, we were to a meeting w...

Most people typically do and he ended up being this complete opposite. he wasnt this egotist cal meat head, he was this incredibly magnetic, you know, well-read -- just this person who was just this fantastic human being. i really cant put my finger on one quality that he had. he just had so many and his brother and the rest of their family are exactly like them. >> larry: mary is going to be with us. pat is going to be leaving us with the two guys, we will meet two other women who faced the sam...

You know, very unsatisfied. and in a period of a few months we started getting autopsies, field hospital reports, things just didnt add up. and we started questioning everything. and we started pushing to have you know, further investigations. and with each investigation we were just faced with more questions. so, its been a six-year process. >> larry: patrick, the person who came to tell you it was friendly fire, why did they do that, you think? keep the story going. they had no choice in the m...

What happened. and in a weeks time, and a lot of the facts changed. and the facts sounded very suspicious and the family was, you know, very unsatisfied. and in a period of a few months we started getting autopsies, field hospital reports, things just didnt add up. and we started questioning everything. and we started pushing to have you know, further investigations. and with each investigation we were just faced with more questions. so, its been a six-year process. >> p >> larry: patrick, the p...

Died in these wars and the families are lied to, and its outrageous. >> larry: friendly fire is common in all wars isnt it though, patrick? goes back to every war before has friendly fire when you are out in a police and people and guns are going off? >> they have books on it going back to the civil war that im familiar with and they have books going back to the civil war im familiar with is a thank say you do not split the troops because it is very dangerous. but you know, the point that we wer...

pats a [ bleep ] champion. >> larry: how many others have died like this? how many families have been lied to about their sons and husbands and wives with and daughters in the military? its next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening, it is good to be back a word about tomorrow nights show, dr. laura will be here for an exclusive interview regarding her controversial remarks last week. now on to tonight. mary tillman, known as danny, pat tillmans mother, author of the book "boots...