Prince Harry presented with the Pat Tillman Award for Service at ESPYS. The hero veteran’s mother disagreed with the selection
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Prince Harry was awarded the 2024 Pat Tillman Award for Service at the annual ESPY Awards Thursday amid a backlash prompted by the mother of the football player who gave up his NFL career after 9/11 to serve his country.
Prince Harry received the 2024 Pat Tillman Award for Service at the ESPYS event in Los Angeles Thursday amid a backlash prompted by the mother of the football player who gave up his NFL career after 9/11 to serve his country. The honor has been bestowed on unsung heroes over the years in Tillman’s name. He gave up a lucrative contract with the Arizona Cardinals to serve in the Army’s elite Rangers force in Afghanistan, where he was killed in 2004. However, the selection of the Duke of Sussex as recipient this year has come under scrutiny after Mary Tillman told The Daily Mail she was “shocked” by the choice when there are far “more fitting” recipients. ESPN announced last month Prince Harry would receive the award, citing “his tireless work in making a positive impact for the veteran community” through The Invictus Games Foundation, which he founded. The sporting event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women “celebrates resilience, community, and healing through the power of sport,” according to the announcement. At the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, an emotional Prince Harry expressed his “gratitude” to everyone at the Pat Tillman Foundation with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, looking on. “The truth is, I stand here not as Prince Harry, Pat Tillman award recipient, but rather a voice on behalf of the Invictus Games Foundation and the thousands of veterans and service personnel from over 20 nations who have made the Invictus Games a reality. This award belongs to them. Not to me,” he said.
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