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The East Tennessee Valentines


My Kennedy Ancestors


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"Strap Hanger"

[Memoirs of a Soldier]
© 1997
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Please Read This First!

Enlistment & Basic Combat Training

325th AIR & Jump School

11th Abn Division

505th Abn Infantry & 325th Again

Special Forces Training & 5th Group

1st Group & White Star

5th Group & Vietnam

3rd Group & Drill Sergeant Duty

46th SF Company & Thailand

1st Group Again & MACV-SOG

Super Spook Training

Fort Belvoir & Vietnam

Special Agent & DAME Training

801st MID

500th MI & Retirement

Photos [Use your back button to return]


"Memoirs of a Real Estate Agent": 
Still in the hopper.


"Life in Our Holler":

Bondin' with Mama Ponder

Southern Appalachian Social Life

Mama Ponder on Her Best Behavior

Easter with Mama Ponder

Vaykashun Time

The Last Midwife

Jerk & Smack It

Mama Ponder's Revenge

Thanksgivin' with Mama Ponder

Mama Ponder Done Done it Agin

Proud to be a Country Boy

Everthang in its Place

Uncle Don

Don Do

Biltmore Gardens-West

Christmas
with Mama Ponder

 

Mama Ponder Speaks: On Ever Dadgum thang

Honkytonks

The Pact of 2003
 

Springtime

 

"Ponderosa Critters:"

Dogs

Cats

Chickens

Ducks

Cattle


Great Smoky Mountain Attractions
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Local Government Telephone Nrs for East Tennessee
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Has the news media wrongfully accussed or falsely portrayed our veterans lately?  Click here


Page to Honor SF MOH Awardees


Hi! Welcome to my web site.  I hope you enjoy your visit with me and mine.

 

NOTICE:

1]  Photos

Click on the link in the left hand column.  You can also see additional photos taken during my military service by selecting "scrapbook" in the Table of Contents at  www.sflistteamhouse.com and then selecting one of the pages located immediately beneath or beside my name, Don "Val" Valentine.  [It may take a few seconds for that page to come up.]  There are lots of photos in their scrapbook section provided by former and current members of special forces and they cover almost all of special forces' history.

Thanks for stopping by and:

"May the good Lord take a liking to you.  May you be in heaven three days before the devil knows you're dead!"
Old Irish proverb.  Author unknown.

I didn't say, "Geronimo!"  I said, "I doan wanna g-o-o-o-o!"

This page is maintained by me-e-e-e-e-e splat!

Notice:  I borrowed the above image from Big Bob's "USMC Force Recon Association" web site.


The Journalist
"In the past, he had to 'pay dues'
"And develop 'a nose for the news.'
"Well, he still has a nose,
"But, my, how it grows
"When the facts must conform to his
views."
--F.R. Duplantier

 

YELLOW JOURNALISM
"Yellow journalism deifies the cult of the mendacious, the sensational, the inane, and, throughout its wide but vapid field, does as much to vulgarize and degrade the popular taste, to weaken the popular character, and to dull the edge of the popular conscience, as any influence under which the country can suffer. These men sneer at the very idea of paying heed to the dictates of a sound morality; as one of their number has cynically put it, they are concerned merely with selling the public whatever the public will buy -- a theory of conduct which would justify the existence of every keeper of an opium den, of every foul creature who ministers to the vices of mankind." --Theodore Roosevelt

 

I SUPPORT JUDICIAL WATCH!
http://www.judicialwatch.org/
They are the only ones that are trying to make the sleazy Clintonistas pay for the heinous acts they perpetrated during their administration while selling our country out to our enemies!

REMEMBER 9/11!

The United Nations

The democratic nations in the United Nations are out numbered about 20 to 1 by nations ruled by corrupt evil tyrants, all of which hate us.  Most of those countries contribute nothing to the UN.  Most of them always vote against anything the USA and/or their allies try to accomplish.  Only those corrupt despots are allowed to head the UN.  Why is that?

I would like to see us withdraw from the United Nations and kick those jerks out of our country,  We should also confiscate all their real and personal property, including the UN's as well as private individual's, and sell them at auction to pay for all of their unpaid parking tickets.  That should be enough to put New York City's government in good shape.  The democratic nations could form a United Democratic Nations.  The UN could build their new headquarters in Africa or perhaps the Middle East.

Foreign Oil

We must wean ourselves from foreign oil.  We must do it!  We have no other choice.   We need more drilling for oil in our own country and territories and we need more refineries.  We can not depend on burning corn in our automobiles.  If we did, we would have insufficient corn or corn products for our own consumption and to feed our livestock.  If the worthless creeps in congress insist on using our crops to produce gas, they should be smart enough to eliminate paying farmers to NOT grow crops.  Besides, if 10% of the fuel is ethynol it reduces the vehicle's miles per gallon about 20%.  Now they are talking about legislation requiring gas to contain15% ethynol which means your vehicle will get 30% less gas mileage than it would if it was 100% gas.  That means we must use even more gas AND ethynol to drive the same distance.  Exactly how does that help our environment?  If you were our enemy, you could not destroy our economy any more efficiently than congress does.  Congress is a bigger threat to our country than all the wars we have ever fought plus all the criminals/outlaws that ever lived in our country.  We also need to develop financially feasible [practical] alternate power sources.  Windmills do not fit the bill.  Right now, only nuclear power qualifies.

If the USA withdraws from Iraq without first dealing with Iran, I believe the world will experience the worst depression in recorded history.  The USA and it's allies will not be able to buy a drop of oil in the middle east.  Why?  Because the crazies in Iran will have the nuclear weapons and all of the other despots in that area will do what ever they dictate.  One of those rules will be no oil sold to western countries that aligned themselves against the radical Muslims.  China and India will buy every drop of the oil.  By the way, we did not withdraw our units from Iraq as the media and the White House have reported.  They just sent the unit flags home, the units remained there, but with a different name for their unit.

NATIONAL SECURITY

We must control our borders.  If we do not control our borders, we will lose our country regardless of whatever else we do.  We have already lost rural areas along our southern border up to 30 miles deep.  Instead of calling out the military to clear those areas of illegal alien smugglers, the Feds erected signs warning US citizens to not go in there.  This is on USA soil folks! 

Middle East Protests

Why is our government and other western nations supporting the protesters?  They don't know who instigated these protests all over the ME.  They don't know who is funding and arming the protesters.  I'll give you two guesses is really behind these protests.  Take your pick:

1.  George Bush

2.  Muslim terrorists

 


'STOLEN VALOR'

Just published and now available via your favorite book store!  B. G. "Jug" Burkett, author, is a 'real' Vietnam veteran and an expert Wanna Bee Investigator/Debunker.  We Vietnam vets knew the truth all along, now you too can get the truth about Vietnam veterans, Wanna Bees, PTSD, and more.  You will be surprised who Burkett has busted as a 'Wanna Bee.'   He has busted movie actors, national TV reporters, infamous criminals, and politicians.  The book is fairly expensive, but well worth it.  It is a good read and makes a great reference book for investigators, VA counselors, reporters, and human resources personnel.  If you can't afford a copy, read it at your nearest major  library.


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U.S. Army Insignia


 Special Forces Insignia


     
SF Group's
Shoulder Patch


Group Crest


SF Branch


Beret Flashes of SF units I served with:


1st SF Group
[Original]


1st SF Group
[After JFK assassination.]


5th SF Group
[Original]


5th SF Group
[After JFK assassination]

 
5th SF Group
[Vietnam]
 


7th SF Group
 


 
46th SF Company
 


Shoulder Patches of other units I served with:


101st Abn. Div.
[9/54-2/55 Basic Tng]


82d Abn. Div.
[2/55-9/55 & 10/57-2/59 & 8/60-5/61]


11th Abn. Div.
[9/55-8/57]

 
8th Inf. Div. Abn. Brigade
[2/59-8/60]

    
525th MI Group – Vietnam
[12/70-12/71]


500th MI Group
[1/75-2/76]

Tank Company
278th RCT
[TN NG]
[11/53-9/54]