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Pat Tillman's Mother Upset By Prince Harry's Upcoming ESPY Award
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Mary Tillman said she was "shocked as to why they would select such a controversial and divisive individual" to receive the honor.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is set to receive an ESPY Award for his work creating the Invictus Games, but the mother of the man who inspired the award isn’t happy one bit.
ESPN announced last week that Harry, the younger son of England’s King Charles III, would be honored with the 2024 Pat Tillman Award for Service at this year’s ESPY Awards. The show will be televised July 11 on ABC, with tennis legend Serena Williams hosting.
The sports network created the award in 2014 to honor people with a strong connection to sports who have “served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman.”
Tillman was a safety for the Arizona Cardinals who quit his pro career after the 9/11 attacks and enlisted in the Army. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 in a friendly fire incident.
The network said Harry deserves the honor for “creating an international platform to support wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and women — both active-duty and veterans — who are navigating both physical and invisible injuries.”