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Agitated, not circulated

| February 28, 2023 | 35 Comments
Agitated, not circulated

rerwtriting to make it Remember the other day we talked about how Penguin and the Dahl family were nicifying Raold Dahl’s work by removing anything potentially “triggering”, “hostile”, or “hurts someone’s widdow feewings”. Well, now they are messing with Holy Writ, trying to de-ball the ultimate Man Books and emasculate the ultimate Male Archetype. I […]

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Still looking for a last minute XMas gift? We have you covered!

| December 15, 2022 | 38 Comments
Still looking for a last minute XMas gift? We have you covered!

After a lot of poking and prodding from some of y’all, I went and collected my Valor Friday articles into a book. Actually, I ended up with way more material than one book could contain. I’ve self-published three (so far). They’re available on Kindle as well as paperback and hardcover. I honestly can’t recommend the […]

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Journalist Duped by Naval Officer

| January 15, 2019 | 30 Comments
Journalist Duped by Naval Officer

      In 2016 Don Shipley and I helped a reporter from the Amarillo Globe-News realize he had been conned by a fake Navy SEAL.  “The Hair” flew out to Amarillo with a fellow SEAL and confronted the phony with the reporter. The reporter used a few quotes from me in the article and […]

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Book Review: The Comfort Station

| March 14, 2017 | 12 Comments
Book Review: The Comfort Station

Anyone who has young kids knows that your book reading goes to damn near nil.  But I’m making an exception and writing and posting this book review because Kelly Crigger is a long time friend of the blog, and it’s worth your time to read it. Once in a while a book comes along that’s […]

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Free books!

| November 2, 2016 | 10 Comments
Free books!

Some of you have complained that you didn’t know about some of our military heroes until they pass and we post their bios here. Well, here’s a way to beat that feeling. Our buddy, Doug Sterner, is making his books available free of charge next week in recognition of Veterans’ Day. Doug started documenting valor […]

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Fake Warriors; a book review

| September 13, 2015 | 28 Comments
Fake Warriors; a book review

Last night I read in one sitting Mark and Erika Holzer’s book “Fake Warriors“. They’re one of the few people who didn’t send me a copy of their book to review, so I figured that it would be pretty good. There were a number of stories of phonies that I hadn’t read about before, but […]

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Abandoned in Hell; The Fight for Vietnam’s Firebase Kate

| February 2, 2015 | 7 Comments
Abandoned in Hell; The Fight for Vietnam’s Firebase Kate

Bill’s Fox & Friends appearance on February 4th has been postponed because of the weather in the Chicago area. As regulars here know, I’ve been communicating with William “Bill” Albracht over the last few months after he came across the post I wrote about him a few months ago. He was awarded his third Silver […]

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A Book Recommendation

| March 27, 2014 | 11 Comments
A Book Recommendation

Most of those who read TAH have a military background. However, we’re not all from the same service.  And though we all know this, it bears repeating:  there is a distinct – and at times, frustrating and perplexing – difference between the services in terms of norms, goals, and objectives.  Each service has its own […]

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