{"id":26624,"date":"2011-09-23T06:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26624"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:23:10","slug":"tah-5th-annivesary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26624","title":{"rendered":"TAH 5th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, today marks the fifth anniversary of the day I was banned at Right Nation<\/a>. I’d been banned before at The History Channel forums about nine thousand times, but being banned at a conservative forum just didn’t sit right with me, so I finally started a place where I couldn’t get banned.<\/p>\n

Well, I’ve been banned sort of, thousands of people avoid the blog everyday. And every time I put a bad word in a headline of a post, we lose fans on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

So in our five years, we’ve been nominated for the Milblog Awards three times…TSO says we’re the Susan Lucci of the Milbloggies; Three nominations and no wins. But, we’ve been beat by the best blogs on the internet in our category, so I’m not complaining…I’m just glad that some people think we’re in the same class.<\/p>\n

The name of the blog came from a book I read by the same name written by journalist of what he saw while he covered the Gulf War. While he and a staff sergeant from the 1st Cav Division watched a B52 strike on the horizon from Saudi Arabia, the staff sergeant turned to the reporter and said “This ain’t Hell , but you can see it from here” – now it’s the title of a book and the name of this blog.<\/p>\n

Our buddy, Matt Burden, also known as Blackfive<\/a> once wrote about us<\/a>; “Sometimes hilarious, sometimes deadly serious, This Ain’t Hell writes tough about tough issues.<\/em>” That’s kind of been my focus in the last few years – to say the things that no one else will say, to write about the stuff no one else will write about, to criticize the people and ideas that no one else will criticize.<\/p>\n

But what makes this blog successful is the commenters – you guys send me so many tips, I can’t keep up with them all, and new folks come here to read your comments – and most of you are tougher on our subject characters than I am. You’re the reason thousands of people from across the globe come here every day, and I thank you for your participation. <\/p>\n

In our five year history, we’ve written 8,000 posts and you’ve written 80,000 comments. Thanks to everyone for being here to feed my ego, and assuage the pain of getting banned at Right Nation…even if you don’t click my ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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