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Aaron Rodgers made his latest lengthy interview appearance this week on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show and spent some of his 2-plus-hours talking about the late Pat Tillman.
While speaking to Carlson, the 40-year-old Jets quarterback said that Tillman — who famously left the NFL to join the Army following the September 11 attack — is one of his heroes and that after he died, his uniform was burned and his journal was confiscated by the government.
“Another one of my heroes, Pat Tillman, who left the NFL to join the Army, his death is very suspicious, in that — not the fact that we know he was killed by friendly fire — but the way they handled his body afterwards, his uniform, confiscating his last journal, using his death to prop up the war propaganda,” Rodgers explained.
When Carlson replied by saying he did not know this about Tillman, Rodgers says it’s detailed in a book by Jon Krakauer.
“His uniform was burned and his journal was confiscated. That was in Jon Krakauer’s book Where Men Win Glory… it’s one of the only books I ever cried while reading.”
Rodgers then summarized what Where Men Win Glory paints as Tillman’s disillusionment with the War on Terror prior to his death via friendly fire on April 22, 2004.
“Pat played for the Cardinals, left a multimillion-dollar contract to go fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban,” Rodgers said. “He gets over there and is like, ‘What the f— am I doing? I’m guarding these poppy fields, this is not what I signed up for. I miss my wife, miss being in the States, this is not what I thought we were going to be doing over here.’”
Back in 2010, while at Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of the documentary The Tillman Story, one of Tillman’s younger brothers told the audience that Krakauer is a “piece of…” before being cut off by his mother Dannie.
You can watch Aaron Rodgers’ full interview on The Tucker Carlson Show below.