g. tillman is yet a man in one of the best in the end to. an operation and in getting. him or early and mid ninety's when the us started to declassify a lot of the information about the testing program that had been classified as secret top secret. better understanding of the effects of radiation was developed. secrecy and classified documents belong to the tradition of the world's armies especially when their actions could prompt lawsuits over millions of dollars in compensation from their governments ok sure. i thought. ok bizarre are such all that the classified documents there were declassified in ninety nine for a number of grog but we just got them. you know ninety either ninety nine it opened up like several buses at one time there was this project or four point one pain and states wanted to learn or make a study on radiation effects on human beings and so that all of these people were chosen. to be used as guinea pigs the rationale in part was that and this is quoting from the book even a report of one nine hundred fifty eight greater knowledge of such effects o

g. komen three-day for the cure, breast cancer walk. >> some people are doing one, maybe two walks. but not tillman. he is doing all 14 cancer events from coast to coast, covering 840 miles. >> i approached my wife and my daughter and my son and they all kind of looked at me like dad, you're nuts. >> nuts? maybe. driven? absolutely. >> hillman lost his mother ruth to breast cancer in 2004. >> she looked death in the eyes and never blinked. it ended up, you know, killing her. but she never blinked through the whole circumstance. she was really strong throughout. >> for hillman, memories build strength. >> usually when i'm up in the foothills, walking, it is very quiet and you're by yourself, and usually you can kind of feel mom walking along the same stretch with me. >> last year, breast cancer took nearly 40,000 lives but thousands more victims have battled and lived. hillman knows there will be painful moments, as he walks. >> there are a lot of things people say during the three-day walks. you know, blisters don't need chemeo. things like that. and it is true. when you're hurting a little bit from