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Pat Tillman's Resilience

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Another great example of Pat Tillman’s presence is his resiliency. At the start of high school, Pat stood a scrawny five feet five inches tall and weighed120 pounds. Pat took it upon himself to eat more and work harder in the weight room after being told he was not ready for baseball, and too small for football (Krakauer, 2009). While this type of resiliency improved his athletics, Pat’s major resilience came at the age of 17. On the weekend after his final regular-season high school football game, Pat Tillman was involved in a serious altercation outside a popular local pizza shop. Coming to the defense of one of his friend who was involved in the initial quarrel, Pat attacked the first person he could grab. Unbeknownst at the time, the

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