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Decade. How has that changed the military . How has it changed how wars will be fought . It changed it pretty dramatically, the military. I entered in 72 and outlined in my story i had a sort of Forrest Gumplike experience. Much of that culminated after 9 11. Many changes has begun before but after 9 11 we got it in perspective. And then we were forced to change again dramatically because the military we created had some good foundations, we had corrected many of the things that had eroded in vietnam, but we werent right for a new Information Age war. Also, we found that the pace in which thin...

Pat Tillman's mother on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I told you so

And you're going to do it with a team of people, if you don't trust them at the outset, you're going to have to develop trust very quickly. >> and he never chose you in this case. do you think that's the issue? >> i think he was involved. i was chosen by secretary gates, and clearly approved by the president. so i wases his commander. i replaced general mckiran in june of 2010. i think, though, there are a number of things. i think people underestimate the difference between the cultures of the civilian culture and military culture. it's not an opposition. they are just different. so they use ...

Like? >> well, i would certainly keep that private. between mary tillman and myself. but there were several conversations and they were very, very civil. >> and do you feel as if this -- do you feel we know the whole story on pat tillman? >> i don't know. there have been five investigations on pat tillman. i know that the part that i saw, the whole story is out and it's very clear. and i never saw anything where anybody was trying to conduct any kind of cover-up. they were always trying to do the right thing for corporal tillman, because he was one of ours, a comrade we lost. and also for the ...

Not have been involved in the coverup of a soldier's death. and i think it's a slap in the face to all soldiers to appoint this man. >> we failed the family and i was a part of that and i apologize for it. >> late last night the white house issued a statement defending the appointment. it said that pat tillman's tragic death was mishandled but that general mcchrystal was found to have acted honorably. and now to a tragic twist in the story of that mom who drove her minivan into new york's hudson river killing herself and three of her children. police now say that lashanda armstrong changed h...