.. 한 미국인 영웅이 죽었지만, 그는 미국인의 가슴과 내 가슴속에 영원히 살아있을 것이다.
Re:An American hero died, but he would live forever in Americans" hearts, including mine.

사랑하는 나의 형제 한국인들이여,
Dear My Fellow Koreans:

부디 아래의 글을 주의 깊게 천천히 읽어주세요. 그리하여 미국이 왜 오늘까지도 세계역사에서 가장 강대한 국가의 하나가 되어있는지 직접 확인하여 주세요.

그는 9.11 테러가 나자, 3백6십만달러(43억2천만원)벌이와 그의 명성을 뒤로하고 조국을 위해 싸우러 떠났고 27 세의 나이로 전사했습니다. 그는 그 선택을 하지 말았어야 했지만, 명성과 부보다는 차라리 명예를 선택한 것입니다. 그는 미국에서 유명축구선수로 3백6십만불과 모든 것을 누릴 수 있었지만, 오히려 만8천불과 죽음을 선택한 것입니다.
그는 죽었지만, 미국인들의 가슴속에 또 저의 가슴속에 영원히 살 것입니다.
Read this article slowly and carefully, then you will see why America is still one of the strongest countries in the world history. He left 3.6 million dollars and his fame in order to fight for his homeland after the Sept. 11 attacks, and was killed at the age of 27. He did not have to, but he chose honor rather than fame and wealth. He selected $18,000 and death rather than $3,600.000 and all kinds of enjoyments as a star football player in America. He died, but would live forever in Americans" heart, including mine.

한국땅의 젊은이들이여, 저는 그대들에게 부디 그대들의 마음 저 바닥의 진실로써 이 미국인의 일을 읽어줄 것을 간청합니다. 그리고 기억하십시오. 아래의 두 문장이야말로 미국과 한국이 진정으로 지닌 영의 외침을 표현한 문장임을.
The young generation of Korea, I really would like you to read this article to the bottom of your heart and to remember the following two sentences that might correctly represent the spirit of America as well as Korea.

자유는 공짜가 아니다.
Freedom is not free!

내 조국을 위해 바칠 수 있는 목숨이 단 한 개뿐임을 슬퍼하노라.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!

예수님의 팔 안에 평화를 누리시기 바랍니다.
Have a peaceful rest in Jesus" arms.

Dr. H
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팻 틸만은 큰 이야기속 미국의 영웅으로 남기를 결코 원하지 않았다. 그는 단지 그에게 주어진 의무를 다하길 원했다. 자랑스럽게 무명으로 그의 의지로 꼿꼿한 한 병사로써.
Pat Tillman never wanted to be a big story nor an American hero. He just wanted to do his duty, as proudly and anonymously as the soldiers who stood by his side.

거기에는 어떠한 보도도, 회합도, 인터뷰도, 행진도, 자화자찬도 없었다. 일 년전, 틸만은 그의 새로 펼쳐질 인생을 뒤로 던졌다. NFL 계약금 3백6십만달러를 뒤로 남기고 황야의 어둠속으로 사라졌다.
There were no news conferences, no interviews, no parades, no self-congratulations. A year ago, Tillman left his new wife, Marie, his $3.6 million NFL contract and disappeared into the desert night.

틸만은 캄캄한 코너와 위험한 어둠으로 잠입해들어간 알카에다와 탈레반을 추적하고 있는 아프가니스탄 동부의 레인저부대에 소속되어 싸웠다. 그리고 결국 그는 슬픔에 바진 사람들에게 슬픈 장송곡을 울리며 집으로 돌아오는 여러 장병들 위에 하나를 더 추가하는 운명이 되어 돌아왔다.
He fought with the Army Rangers in Eastern Afghanistan, chasing al-Qaida and Taliban into the dark corners and dangerous shadows. In the end, he turned out to be one more soldier returning home to the sad, sad sound of Taps.

그의 마지막 희생과 함께, 틸만은 틸만처럼 귀환한 수많은 장병들과 함께 추모의 대상으로도 자신을 또한 헌신했다. 성조기에 덮이어 그가 누운 관위로 수많은 눈물들이 흘러 내렸다.
With his ultimate sacrifice, Tillman serves as a reminder that there are so many more coming home just like him: Draped under an American flag, tears flowing over the casket.

그는 단 한번도 자신을 스포츠계의 놀랄만한 이야기꺼리로 설명한 적이 없다. 한 애리조나 카디날 선수는 목요일에 있었던 총격전에서 자신에게 자신의 목숨을 지불했다. 글래머와 돈, 입영의 댓가인 만8천불의 선한 삶을 뒤로 남기고.
He never explained one of the most surprising stories in sports, an Arizona Cardinal leaving the glamour, the money, the good life for an enlistment wage of $18,000 and the risk of that firefight on Thursday that cost him his life.

September 11, 2001 didn"t inspire Tillman to wear a flag on his football helmet or sing the "Star Spangled Banner" a little louder on Sundays. It inspired an epiphany that most Americans would"ve never stopped long enough to consider -- never mind act upon.

Without ever meeting him, without ever hearing him completely detail his motives, it seems that what Pat Tillman would"ve wanted today was for everyone to remember those Americans and allies dying every day in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ultimate sacrifice wasn"t walking away from football and a fortune, because clearly his principles and priorities transcended the values of the culture. To Tillman, it seemed, the ultimate sacrifice belonged to the fathers and mothers who left families back in the States, whose deaths merit a story in the hometown paper and a red, white and blue wreath in the cemetery.

Tillman is a face for today, and maybe America needed that, because everyone had started to grow numb to the mounting losses overseas, that lost sense of the tragedy that unfolded every day there. The big, fancy battles that finished with the fall of Baghdad no longer fill television screens, and maybe Americans who became lost again in the every day minutia needed a kick in the stomach.

Today"s loss turned out to be Pat Tillman. Maybe he never believed that this could be the result of his brave choice to enlist, but more than a year later, there is clearly a bright lining to his dark loss: The way that no one else could have -- for better or worse, for whatever it says of our society -- one familiar face made millions of Americans stop and consider the sacrifices of those serving with him.

Selflessness is thrown around too carelessly in sports -- ballplayers made out to be heroes when they"re willing to switch positions. Pat Tillman, though, has transcended even the highest standards of selflessness and sacrifice, and his life and death will take on what they deserve: mythical proportions.

There will be no footage, no tape, no real records of him describing the details of his decision, of talking on and on about the choice he made. And maybe, he understood: Such navel-gazing was completely unnecessary.

In a climate where everyone talks so much about so little, Pat Tillman believed that sometimes a man needed to make a stand in his life. His spoke for himself, yes, but in the end, his death spoke too -- for the sacrifice of every soldier without a voice.

An American hero died in Afghanistan on Thursday, but what Pat Tillman was able to remind everyone back home was that, tragically, this isn"t so unusual. They are dying every day.
Dr. H

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