I read a book today. Usually it takes me a while to finish a book with life's commitments. Today I chose the printed word over the internet and I was rewarded.
Marie Tillman, you may guess, is the wife of former NFL player and US Army Ranger Pat Tillman. After 9-11 Pat Tillman left the Arizona Cardinals and enlisted in the US Army, choosing to be assigned to a Ranger unit. After a tour in Iraq, he was deployed to Afghanistan and was killed in action by friendly fire. The book tells about that.
What the book is really about is the rebuilding that Marie Tillman went through after the death of her husband. And it starts with a letter he wrote to her hastily while on his first deployment to Iraq. Yes, that letter. The letter our servicemen write that will be given to family if the soldier dies in action. As a father of a soldier, I have wondered what my son's letter says, though being a man of few words probably not much but certainly they are profound.
I won't tell you what the letter says, but it is a lesson we all can profit by putting into practice. They are the words of a husband that knows his wife, but they are universal in their message to all of us. The Letter should be read because it gives us a message we all need to hear over and over. The book tells us this in a story that is both public and private, and is still worth hearing.
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