to raise money and awareness for the pat tillman foundation. the book is full of stories about his decision and the aftermath, the journey across. anand gopal covered afghanistan for a number of outlets including the "wall street journal." the book that he's produced represents just years and dozens and dozens of interviews. it's really several stories but for the first time actually the stories are of the people who are occupied in afghanistan and brings to life the different aspect of the u.s. occupation in ways that make it clear what we're doing there is far from bringing freedom. it's really a huge privilege to be able to introduce these two men. i think anand will go first, and then we'll hear from rory, and then we'll open it up for questions, and i look forward to the discussion. thank you all for coming out, and -- [inaudible] anand gopal. >> thank you so much. privilege to be here in what is, i guess, my favorite bookstore in new york city. i've been coming here for years so it's really great to come and speak in front of all of you.

. >> rory fanning, a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a consciences objector a few days after pat tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal, author of "no good men among the living," about the afghan war to the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour 10 minutes. >> hey everyone, thanks for coming. my name is jason. i work at haymarket books but i had the privilege of putting together events for these children many others and have the opportunity for thinking of going to come and introduce the event. we vetted number of events like this and we'll have a few more and they've all been really exciting to be part of any want to say the things about why i think if it's like these are so important, particularly today. it strikes me just walking through the world how lonely it can be, to be an antiwar activist at this moment but if there's an antiwar movement it is received as a path away from vision. it's harder to see any sort of organized action. what we are left with is mainstream media is decent if they have any debates on any of

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being mentioned with pat tillman is a true honor and it's a wonderful gleszing being surrounded by soransition emotionally. no one tells you what to do every minute of the day for the first time in a decade and you have a lot of free time so they understand that. now, jay pat tillman, what did you know about him and why did you say i got to take part in this? >> such a physical football player. a beast out on the field. a guy had everything in front of him was willing to give it up to go serve his country. somebody that i want my kids to know about, emulate. we've been a part of the tillman foundation and doing the runs. i bring my wife and kids and do the run every year. try to be involved as much as we can just to say thank you to people like john for serving our country and being willing to sacrifice their life like pat did. >> the bond between athletes an the military is unbelievable. you guys together, football, soccer, you see it. now, jay you didn't just stop here the to hear john's story and tell everybody pat tillman. >> are you going to the game? >> watching. >> you're here

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. >>> when you think of sports and arizona, it is hard not to think of pat tillman, the former nfl stare the country. his legacy lives on to this day. al is back with more on that. al. >> lester thank you. after pat's death, his wife marie, went on to found the tillman is scholarship which helps veterans and military members pursue higher education. one is a member who left his dream behind to fulfill his brother's legacy. josh elliot has more. >> reporter: in 2006 ed woodward just five flights from graduating flight school. after a test flight in oregon he developed a blood clot in his brain. his recovery was an arduous one. but he insisted he would do anything to allow to fly. the air force said the risk was too great. >> that is when it i realized i lost and i was never for to get to fly again. >> reporter: suddenly without purpose, ed felt hopelessly lost until the day his grandfather had an idea. >> i said i don't know what to do. i don't know what i can do. he looked at me and said finish what gene started. >> reporter: finish what gene started. that's a story that begins in the s

well, you know, after pat's death, his wife marie went on to found the tillman scholarship, which helpsue higher education. one of the most recent recipients is ed woodward. he decided to leave his dream behind to fulfill his late brother's legacy. nbc sports josh elliott has the story. >> reporter: in 2006 ed woodward was just five flights from graduating flight school. but shortly after a test flight in oregon he developed a blood clot in his brain. his recovery was an arduous one. but throughout, he insisted he would do anything to be allowed to fly. but the air force said the risk was too great. >> that's when i realized that i had lost -- i'd never get to fly again. >> reporter: suddenly without purpose, ed felt hopelessly lost until the day his grandfather had an idea. >> and he said i don't know what to do. i don't know what i can do. he looked at me and he said, why don't you finish what jimmy started. >> reporter: finish what gene started. that's a story that begins in the summer of 2000. on the day ed's twin brother gene finished his first year of medical school. ed and gene w

you might remember joe bell who in march was caught on video right here cheering on the pat tillman run from his front yard. he was in his army uniform to show respect for tillman killed in afghanistan. you see here one by one, runners started veering off the street to shake his hand. nbc nightly news named this clip one of the most inspiring viral videos of 2014. in the months that followed bell was named grand marshal of the fourth of july parade and got his own giants baseball trading card. bell died at his home yesterday. he was 95 years old. >> what an honor for those folks to have shaken his hand. >> nice video. >> jeff outside, so hazy. >> we are having a hard time getting rid of this pollution. even though we had sunny skies for just a little bit, it was hard to see it through the haze. we still have poor air quality in the north bay, san francisco tri-valley peninsula. tomorrow's forecast unfortunately, another spare the air day in effect. it does not look like pollution will be improving too much. and temperatures will stay in low to mid 60s for the most part. don't expect a l

i simply want to know what the truth is and it just seems to me whether we're talking about pat tillmanking about jessica lynch, whether we're talking about any number of other instances. >> sure. >> a genuine american story of heroism, nevertheless gets embellished. i mean chris kyle told a story, was routinely, according to so many accounts telling a story about how two guys wanted to steal his truck and he killed them and there's just no record of that whatsoever. of course as everybody knows, in the book itself although he doesn't identify jesse ventura by name and, you know, you wrote it with him, he calls him scruff face a $1.8 million defamation jury verdict in support of jesse ventura and it leaves me wondering, well how much of the story can i believe, if each of these instances is just not based or grounded in fact? >> you see, now there's the problem. you just said it was a defamation judgment and the reality is that that's -- it was not a defamation judgment. part of it was. part of it was something else. what happens in these cases is someone says one thing and goes on the

rory fanning a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a conscientious objector a few days after tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal author of "no good men among the living" about the afghan war through the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour ten. >> okay everyone thanks for

and then you got pat buchanan tillman and the christian reich -- right. you know what i mean. pat, i loved his book, but i liked it better in the original german. it was so much better. it is so hard not to go out there and say pat we got it. i guess the bottom line is we are here tonight because of the shrub. you know who i am talking about. george w. bush jr. the w. stands for where the hell is it? you look at george w., and you realize some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift. [cheers and applause] i just want to ask the secret service, is it true that his secret service code name is gilligan? is that really true? gilligan is on the move, little buddy. keep going. it is always frightening to me. i hate to see him in a debate. he kept asking if he could use his life line. no. you can't call your dad. not going to do it, can't help you in and out. can't see it. good good, good one. get after it. run for office. not the brightos bulb on the tree. just go. frightening. i don't want to see him in charge of the economy. basically it is like