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00:00December 20th, 1998, the Arizona Cardinals are playing host to the New Orleans Saints.
00:17Cardinals team photographer Gene Lauer is hard at work.
00:23It was in the second half of the game, so I was down in the north end zone of the stadium.
00:29I had also positioned myself behind the play so that I was facing the Cardinals defense,
00:35ready to capture with them making any plays facing towards me.
00:51Unfortunately I was blocked by other players, so I really didn't get any shots of the action
00:55of Pat.
00:56But as it happened, I kept following him.
01:04Then all of a sudden, boom, you know, it happened.
01:09They say a photo's worth a thousand words, but in my mind, this photo emphasizes just
01:14one word, passion.
01:19Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it's, you know, playing sports or
01:22whether it's, you know, just living or whatever you're going to do, in my opinion, you should
01:27be passionate about it, or else why do it?
01:30Some photos, they last a millisecond, and that's what's amazing with the photo that
01:35I took of Pat Tillman, is that what happened in a millisecond now lives on for eternity.
01:43After Pat Tillman's death, this image became iconic.
01:50But for those who knew him, Pat Tillman was much more than a figure cut from granite.
01:56All these years later, they are still haunted by his death.
02:06How do you try and get into somebody's head and figure out how they would want to be remembered?
02:12Can we say patriot?
02:15Can we say hero?
02:19How about just a great human being?
02:22How about we start there?
02:29Over 700 U.S. soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the latest from the
02:33world of sports, one of the brightest stars to ever step on and step off the football
02:37field.
02:38Pat Tillman, determined to do something following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, has died.
02:45The facts show clearly that there was no cover-up.
02:50We took the Tillman family's nightmare and made it worse.
02:55We failed them.
02:58It's shameless.
02:59Not only did they lie to us, they lied to the whole country.
03:03We weren't told anything other than just shut up, don't talk about it.
03:08People are carrying around an awful lot of shame that probably doesn't belong to them.
03:14Real suicidal thoughts, guys telling you, I put the .45 up to my head with the hammer
03:19cocked back.
03:21How can we learn to live each day with the appreciation that it's a gift and that there
03:28are people like Pat that aren't here to live it?