{"id":55354,"date":"2014-09-23T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55354"},"modified":"2014-09-23T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T10:56:05","slug":"tah-anniversary-eight-years-of-terrorizing-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55354","title":{"rendered":"TAH Anniversary; Eight years of terrorizing idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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