Tina Pittman-Carr (MSgt Pittman's beloved daughter) remembers her dearest father with great devotion:

"Dad always had remarkable and exceptionally bold courage… not just in his actions and combat, but in his everyday conversations and particularly in the speeches he gave. He never failed to articulate and precisely lay out the really hard topics that most never dared to discuss at all. His ability to assess the entirety of a social or sensitive political issue, dissect it, and thoughtfully challenge others as to their positions and then present his bold and even sometimes "controversial" positions based on ethics, really complex, broad reflection, and explain the history, precedent and reasoning behind the decisions he took was captivating. Then, as a conclusion, he generally capped it off with his own self-depracating humility and authentic common sense, every day man snarky remark… he could capture an audience in ways most speakers never could.

For example: The speech he gave to teachers and educators in the Reagan Library for over an hour… captures that incredibly. He talked to them about very significant educational realities, teachers and unions often participating in tearing apart history and taking out significant controversial facts, and in doing so, eliminating the historical lesson for the sake of sensitivity, participation points without merit, and did all of that… while he was engaging them, and they were demonstrating what I don't think they even realized was agreement with him, until he came in at the end and mentioned the damage it was doing to our children and the fabric of our nation, and when he asked why no one was speaking out against it… crickets. I don't think they ever realized until that question that they had already agreed with him and his critical analysis. And that was 20 years ago. Amazing!!!

He speaks about kids and cell phones, as well… all some nearly 20 years ago… all of the things that still are controversial today, and they had already agreed with him in principle, and they never even saw it coming. His ability to communicate intelligently, while maintaining an articulate common sense every man position and gaining broad consensus, was exceptional. Long before it was trending as it is now. I was always completely mesmerized and tremendously proud of that. While I despise speaking publicly, those are exactly the principles I stand on and my inspiration when I present at schools and districts to educators and kids. I carry his personality in my DNA, and I present it almost exactly by that model. He was my inspiration and role model before I even knew what it was. At like 4 or 5 years old. Captivated… by my father, and I could (and often did) effectively argue with him! And I still do. Even though he is gone, he is very much alive to me every day."