Photo: #Mary Tillman, mother of former football star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. Mary Tillman is out with a new book, "Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman."
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Mary Tillman, mother of former football star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. Mary Tillman is out with a new book, "Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman." (KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

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A tribute to Pat Tillman

Broadcast: Midday, 06/10/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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Mary Tillman writes about her son Pat Tillman, the former football star and and Army Ranger who was killed in the Iraq war, in her new book, "Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman." She discussed her son and the circumstances around his death recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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