Pat’s Run celebrated its 20th anniversary April 13 with approximately 28,000 participants taking part in a 4.2-mile run/walk along the scenic routes of Tempe.
In what has become an April ritual and a highlight of the Valley’s sports scene, approximately 30,000 people flooded the streets around Arizona State’s Tempe campus April 13 in the
speak so much more than people s words across the nation. congressman, as you know, how do you handle that? it s all about accountability. the bush administration lied to the family, they didn t tell the truth for over a month. they ordered the soldiers that served with pat to burn his uniform, his body armor, his notebook. we ll address those things. but we want to talk about the foundation, about marie tillman, her inspiring call to action that continues on to this day, now ten years later. on saturday in arizona, there s pat s run. there will be tens of thousands of folks who do it and there s shadow runs all over the country, including our hometown of philadelphia, that i ll be running in tomorrow.
he gave up his $6 million contract in the nfl to go make $16,000 a year as an army ranger because our nation was attacked on 9/11 and he wanted to serve. he became an army ranger and unfortunately in the war there was friendly fire and he was killed. he was killed by his own men. there was a clean coverup from our government. they burned his body armor and equipment. they didn t tell his family the truth for over a month. in those ashes of despair of losing an american hero, marie tillman and the foundation have done tremendous work. there s tens of thousands running in what s called pat s run. and there s shadow runs all over the country. i know i ll be in philly running in ours. and the foundation has done incredible work. look at what they ve done. over 290 military scholars right now. $4.6 million in scholarship