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WHO THE HECK IS "WOUNDED BEAR"
(UPDATED NOVEMBER 2005)
INTRODUCING  ...... THE NEWEST WRITER OF WILD FICTION, ABOUT THOSE WILD DAYS IN VIETNAM
I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY FIRST NOVEL IS TO BE RELEASED               TO THE PUBLIC DEC 26, 2005
"PBR: FLOWERCHILD"
for information on price, ordering and a brief synopsis of the story, please go to
also ... coming in 2006
"PBR: Sea Daddy"
The "Freedom Bird" was on its way home ... until it crashed!   Now it became a life and death battle to survive!
"PBR: Churchkey!"
Hmmm .. have you ever wondered what can be done ... with a churchkey?
"Valkyrie"
One very evil lady .. meet her at  http://hometown.aol.com/valkyrieNovel/
"Petra: A Time of Her Life"
Science Fiction meets Civil War history ... the hard way!
So .... who the heck is Wounded Bear???  Does anyone really care?
Hello friends, neighbors and brethren. I am Steve Mungie (say it "Mun-GEE"), formerly a resident (for 16 years) of Colorado. Living high (which explains my being "light headed" all the time!) in the Rockies, at the 10,000 foot level finally got to these old bones, and at the urging of my wife Brenda, we decided to "go south!" to a warmer climate and lower altitude. ... to the Gulf Coast area of southeastern Alabama.
I am of "mixed" American Indian "heritage": To'hono O'ohdam (or "Papago"), and San Carlos Apache ... and needless to say ... rumors has it there was some "whiteys" somewhere in the woodpile!  HEY ... I never said I was "politically correct". In fact many have discovered the (new) "Mouth of the South" is still as outspoken as ever, on subjects of politics, religion, Veteran Rights, and other subjects of interest, as much as I was    when I was still known to many as the "Mouth of Colorado".
My given Indian name is .... "Wounded Bear" and the story behind it, can be found in my Autobiography  "A Wounded Spirit, Who Can Bear?"
I am a Vietnam Combat Veteran, again of "mixed heritage"; I served in the NAVY from 1964 to 1970, and then in the ARMY, from 1970 until I retired in 1986, straight into a wild life as a Radio DJ (mostly Country & Western music) and as a Talk-Show Host until determined by the notorious (or is that "In-famous"?) Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1996,   I was declared to be a "100% Service Connect Disabled Combat Veteran" I served in Vietnam in the Navy, from 1968-1969, during the great TET Offensive Incident, as a "PBR Brown Water Sailor" in and around the Co Chien, Ham Luong, Bassac, and Mekong Rivers, of the Mekong Delta area of South Vietnam. Though originally assigned as "Ship's Company" aboard the USS Hunterdon County (LST838), I was often "loaned out" to River Sections 533, 534, and 551, during my wonderful (year long) "summer vacation" in Vietnam, serving mostly as a "substitute" (they needed "warm bodies" at the time, and as a medical corpsman on many missions. Unfortunately, this happens often when you hold little to no rank, and you are the "favorite" on the Chief's "Shit List".  Later in my "career", from February of 1970 to early Spring 1986, I served our nation in the US Army.
 A CALL TO ARMS: AMERICA'S VETERANS MUST UNITE
Because of the recent wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, many of our kids and grandkids, are now joining our ranks as "Disabled Veterans", with wounds to the body, the spirit and the souls. But the biggest "wound" of all, the one that may never heal, is the wound caused by an unthankful Congress, and the past three administrations, who have robbed, and literally raped the returning soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, who have given far more than even my generation ... the Vietnam veterans.
Both of the primary political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, have turned their backs on those who have defended the freedoms we cherish. And, because of this betrayal, it is incumbent upopn all of us to take up the slack, and "defend" our Defenders, those who will carry our families and heritage into an uncertain future.
For that reason, it is important that all Veterans, their families, supporters and others form a new front against those who would dump us on the by-ways of life, like yestersay's garbage! The time to organize, unite, and become a formidable force in politics is here. I call on all to band together for the fight of our lives ... we need ... a Consolidated and United Veteran's Party.  I call on all wannabee "third parties" of a like mind, who's goals and desires are to return America to her Constitutional roots, to UNITE into a singular party, under a singular leadership, to fight the fight of freedom .... http://www.veteransparty.us
OUR FUTURE AND FUTURE OF OUR NATION, OUR MILITARY & VETERANS, CHILDREN, & GRANDCHILDREN DEPEND ON IT.  ALL VETERANS AND FAMILIES: PLEASE VISIT THE FIREBASE NETWORK
AND CONSIDER JOIN US IN THIS FIGHT www.firebasenetwork.net
AGENT ORANGE AFFECTED US ALL
Like almost every individual of all services, who served in the jungles of Vietnam between 1954 through 1976, I too was affected by the defoliant Agent Orange (and others) that we were almost daily inundated with, during my time in the "Delta". On at least six noted occasions, can remember the oldantique Air Force C-46's and C-47's, specially equipped with sprayer equipment on its wings, laying down layer upon layer of the thick and viscous clear liquid spay which we later learned to be known as "Agent Orange", to defoilate the riverbanks, and jungle areas closest to the rivers, "to protect" us from snipers, and the like, not knowing they were not protecting us, but in a sense ... killing us, and destroying our futures and that of our off-spring, by sentencing all of us to a very slow and lingering death. In my case ... the prognoses: a lifetime of dialysis, thrice weekly, for whatever time remains, unless The Good Lord, and the VA system offers, and provides a kidney transplant.
REMEMBER ALL THOSE RECRUITING LIES WE ALL HEARD??? KIDS TODAY, ARE BEING TOLD THE SAME LIES!
Like all vets and RETIREES, I lost the one commodity that our Uncle Sam promised all of us: FREE LIFETIME MEDICAL CARE, for the retirees and their families. At the age of 40, who could have anticipated that we would be betrayed and then stripped of this entitlement; an Earned Right, by a corrupt Congress, seeking money to pay for other more important "pork barrel projects". And further, how many at 40, could afford to replace that promised care with a commercial medical insurance policy needed? Can you? Me either ... And like most Retirees, and especially disabled vets, I must now rely upon the benevolence of the very adversarial Veterans Administration, its incompetant and "hateful" employees, to fulfill my needs, both in general medical care and my kidney disease and treatment. I am no longer allowed to go to my neighborhood military MTF for treatment, even though I have EARNED that RIGHT to do so. The perverted and corrupt program we all know as (just) "TRI (and get) Care" system has of course, "passed the buck" down the line to others, so that they can pocket more oif our hard earned dollars, for their corruption. And MEDICARE, yeh right! They will "gladly" pay up to 80% of the transplant costs, provided I can shell out at least 20% ... in dollars ... up front!! roughly about TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY GRAND.  In Vietnam, they had a "slang" saying .. "XHIN LOI" (said "sin loy").  Loosely translated it means, "gee, sorry about that ..!!!"   And of course, it was always punctuated with a few meaningful adjectives, adverbs, and expletives.
GOD'S FREE GIFT JUST CLICK ON THE BIBLE

 

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