Twenty is a significant number this year for the legacy of Pat Tillman.
Garwood said that today as a guest during the taping of the Pro Football Hall of Fame radio show on SiriusXM NFL radio with me and Rich Desrosiers, who is the Hall’s chief communications and content officer. The show begins at 7 pm Arizona time tonight and will also air from 2-4 am Saturday and on Sunday from 4-6 am and 3-5 pm and can be heard on the SiriusXM app.
“My wife and I are very fortunate,” Garwood added. “We’ve got three sons and our oldest is 23, our middle guy is 21 and our youngest is 18. So I’m not super great at math, but I have two boys that Pat met and one that he never met. So something for us is kind of a selfish thing is how do we keep Pat’s memory alive. How do we share who he was with our boys?
“He’s been ever-present in their lives and it’s just something that we work on, quite frankly, daily. And then how do you then translate that from a small little world just our small family, but how do we translate that into a foundation. How do we share it with 30,000 of our closest friends at Pat’s Run next weekend? It’s an interesting balance.”
But one that has had a significant impact on many.
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