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Pat Tillman Award · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas, do you think
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  Prince Harry should get the Pat Tillman Award? Well, let's ask our American
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  mamas, Alma and Jody. Is now our American mama's Terry Nedeville and Kimberly
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  Burlison. Okay, Pat Tillman obviously was an NFL superstar. Right after nine
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  to eleven, Pat Tillman gave up his multi million dollar contract, his brand
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  new multimillion dollar contract, to enlist in the Army. He was Army Special
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  Forces and ended up dying in Afghanistan, unfortunately from friendly fire. But so
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  there's a Pat Tillman Award that honors that level of sacrifice. It's one thing
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  to if you don't have a whole bunch to give up to go into the
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  military. Okay, that's I mean, you're still going the military. I
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  want to honor and respect that. But people see the million dollar that's what
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  everybody wants to America's the American dream in a lot of people's minds. He
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  gave up the American dream to serve his country. Right, does Prince Harry
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  me that creater real quick? Before we go? I know this mom a
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  segment. Prince Harry did serve in the armed forces in Afghanistan while we were
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  fighting over there. He was in firefights in Afghanistan. He had to go
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  under a different name so that the Taliban wouldn't know that the Prince of Britain
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  was in their country. It would have been made a bigger target for all
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  of his comrades. And then once the Taliban did figure out which company he
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  was in, they pulled him out of country because he was actually making things
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  more dangerous, dangerous for his comrades. So he did serve his nation and
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  the United States under fire in our war on terror. Okay, So when
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  I think of this Pat Tillman and war, I think about strength, courage,
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  sacrifice, loving your country, wanting to serve on behalf. When I
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  think of Harry, I think selfish, whiny baby, not courageous at all,
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  spilling the beans. I think one of the things that he did in
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  his book is he talked about how many how many soldiers on the other side
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  he killed, and you're not supposed to do that, apparently, So he's
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  actually Harry. In the last few years since he met you know, woke
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  Megan Markle, he has gone down in respect and reverence from everybody, his
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  circle of friends, his family. He is detached from them right now.
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  He and his brother don't speak. In fact, I just heard on you
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  know, I like to listen to Australian News in the Sky News, and
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  they were talking about how, you know, William has pussed foot down and
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  said there was no way that his brother can come back under any circumstances because
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  he's thrown everybody under the bus. He's spilled the beans, everything opposite of
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  what you picture the Pat Tilman Award to be for. So they're saying,
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  because he's got this lawsuit going on, there's word out there that this is
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  some sort of p R affront, so that it kind of takes away,
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  it lessens a blow from what he's doing in the court rooms, public relations,
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  rehabilitation. Yes, exactly that. But what I found interesting was Pat
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  Tillman's mom. And I'm putting myself in that position too. If this was
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  like the you know, steal Netterville a warders, you know, slaver,
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  how would I feel I would be like her and say, wait, what
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  criteria? Because there are applications that are flooding in with regard to people who
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  actually deserve and accolade such as that. So she says, wait a minute,
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  that he doesn't meet any of the accomplishments or the requirements. Why how
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  so it is under review. He may not get this. So anyway,
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  it made me start thinking. I was on my morning walk when I was
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  listening to this, and it made me think of about people who, you
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  know, like Gary Sonice, who I feel like has done so much for
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  our military, so much for our country, but when the big wards,
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  like the Presidential award comes up, you don't see his name, or he
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  gets passed over by somebody else that didn't do as much. But kimberly kind
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  of she was like, you know, he Gary Sonice is very renowned in
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  that world of helping veterans. He's oh very much. He wrote, maybe
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  one of the biggest names in that. And I thought, Okay. Then
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  it made me think maybe that's what it's about. Maybe it's for that person,
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  their purpose. It's not about getting the accolades. I just wonder when
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  things I wish things weren't so political. You know, it's so sad.
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  And I was telling y'all earlier running a nonprofit, you know, we got
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  into it to help military families and that was my heart, that was my
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  passion, and we were very successful at it. But once we were in
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  that world, this is during the Obama years, we were thrust into Washington,
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  we were surrounded by all these people that have these nonprofits. It's a
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  dirty world. It is a very uh, it is not what you expect.
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  Is disheartening, it's disheartening. But one thing that's interesting, it is
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  like Pat Tillman is family, they must not be on the board anymore.
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  And we had the same experience. Once we were getting bigger, we had
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  different people coming on board, and they then wanted to push us out,
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  the founders. And so that's what I think probably ended up happening with this
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  particular Yeah, this particular accolade organization. Like it's the wrong people on the
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  board making these decisions. The family is probably no longer has a voice on
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  the board. And then it turns into a political thing. Put it turns
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  into what's the benefit kind of thing. Was kind of like the presidential award
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  that each president, you know, they put the medal around the next you
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  think about it, all these Hollywood celebrity elites. I remember Obama for those
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  eight years putting them and I thought, what did they do? What did
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  they do? It's all these actors and actresses that actually they go on vacation,
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  they're invited to parties, and so what's real? What's authentic? Will
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  it ever be transparent? You know? I don't know. I just I
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  wish if there was a world where we could pull back the curtain and the
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  Wizard Boss could be saying that we could just know exactly what's going on.
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  If you like to ask our American Mama is a question, go to our
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  website American ground Ready dot com slash mamas and click on the ask of the
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  Mama's button. Turn it out of Kamberly Brothers and thank you so much,
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  thank you,