TAH Anniversary; Eight years of terrorizing idiots
So, it was eight years ago that This Ain’t Hell took root in my fertile mind after a few years of honing that mind in forums from Paratrooper.net to the History Channel. It took a few more years to latch onto the Stolen Valor thing. We didn’t start the Stolen Valor thing, but we brought it to social media and the popular culture. We have spawned some of the better Stolen Valor sites and set the standard on the internet for outing phonies. It helps having the finest legal mind in the stolen valor community on staff and some of the best military records researchers an email away. Most of them are named in the lawsuits against us.
But, like I’m quick to tell the media types, stolen valor isn’t all we do here. We just kind of fell into it one day. And, whenever I talk to the media about issues that affect the military and veterans, they always ask what my commenters think, because your opinion is more important than mine. I just pay the bills, again, with your help and your donations.
TAH is the best idea I’ve ever had that didn’t involve nudity – I have friends across the country, some of whom stop by and give me booze and guns. I break even money-wise and I’m rich in friends. That’s a perfect business, right? And all of my enemies are the bad sort, society’s worst scoundrels.
So, welcome to our ninth year of being the most reviled and celebrated blog on the internet. Thanks to all of you helped keep us going and to all of my blogger friends who saw value in my blog and shared my incoherent blather with their own readers and brought all y’all here in the first place.
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Thanks for making me chuckle each morning!
Happy anniversary to TAH, and happy b day to you Jonn
God bless you, Jonn, and thank you for all you do.
TAH ROCKS!!!
Jonn,
Thank you, the paid and non-paid staff, legal team, researchers, all coffee bean pickers in Latin America, volunteers from NSA, CIA and DIA, the little guy in the basement of the “Hall of Records”, your lovely staff at TAH Worldwide HQ, mail men from sea to shining sea kept busy recently, the WVSP, your ISP, Russian hackers (reading our foes email), Hondo, TSO, Poe, Joe and let’s not forget Moe, all the dickweeds who hang out here, the ladies of TAH (they are all so smokin’ hot), your per se medical staff, gunsmith, ammo provider, local liqueur store, the guy too far away who has Cubano cigars, the AL for their contributions and finally for the WIZARD of TAH …
A real man who dependably makes a difference everyday and will do so for a long time to come.
All the best … BRAVO ZULU
PS: I was lurker for a long time. Once I retired it was game on! BLUF … There are many like me … Lurking and preparing the environment so they can jump in.
congratulations on a the blog turning 8, here’s to another 8 years. May they be long and fruitful.
Well, MCPO said it all, and better than I could. I’ll just echo BZ.
Every phony Veteran you nail is in defense of every Mom/Dad/Husband/Wife/Daughter/Son who had a loved one leave and go in harm’s way, 10x more for the loved ones and Families who never got to see their Soldier/Sailor/Airman/Marine alive again.
And even though the waves of phonies seem endless…consider all the phonies that are outed 1 on 1 by those who run across TAH, but never tell their story here.
Keep up the good work. Here’s a toast – whiskey with a whiskey chaser – to at least 8 more good years.
Congrats TAH, always a pleasure to read your posts and the comments therein. You are a daily read.
Here’s to 8 x N more!
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Hai guize! What’s happening on TAH!!
For all you lurkers, frequent posters and Jonn, TSO, Etc….
“Well, TAH is very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads — They all adore Jonn. They think he’s a righteous dude.”
This for Jonn, and all of us as part of the TAH family…..
Damn. Thanks, for the Flintstones Happy Anniversary song, Chip. I’d like to return the favor so do not think of the Makin’ Bacon Pancakes song, okay?