Biography
Joe is a Vietnam Combat Veteran, having served 26 months in the Republic Of South Vietnam, 10 months with Company A, 27th Combat Engineers, 28 August 1968 to June 1969, and 16 months as a crewchief/doorgunner with the 240th Assault Helicopter company on UH-1C Hueys, the Mad Dog Gunship Platoon from July 1969 to 22 October 1970. Joe graduated from Cuyahoga Community College in 1982 with a Associate Of Arts Degree and from Cleveland State University in 1986 with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology; he also accumulated 12 hours of graduate work at Cleveland State. He lives with his best friend, his wife, and they have 13 rescued cats, 2 German Shepherds and one Heinz 57 little dog. Joe has spoken at high schools and colleges for 25 years about PTSD, war and how not to treat returning veterans when they come home to America after fighting for their country.
This coming April 30th, 2012, it will be 37 years since Saigon and South Vietnam fell to the communists.
April 21st, 2012 | Posted in History,Vietnam War | Read More »
For us Vietnam Veteran baby-boomers, remember when you could just look at a new car from the automobile capitol of the world in the 60′s and 70′s, Detroit, Michigan and tell what year it was by the styling? Do you remember the old black and white television commercials about the upcoming new year models and then seeing them in all their vivid colors on the street or in a showroom for the first time? WOW, the car seemed to have come to life seeing it up close and in color! How many of us dreamed and wished about getting our own car when we were old enough and could afford it?
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Food, Wine & Travel,Living,Of Interest | Read More »
November 22, 2010 Senator Mitch McConnell 361-A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2541 Dear Senator McConnell: Recently, our past president, George W. Bush, wrote in his memoirs, Decision Points, that you met privately with him and urged the President to withdrawal troops from Iraq in September of 2006 when American casualties [...]
November 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
We all know when we tell somebody something that is not true that is considered a lie. It seems a local candidate for mayor in the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, J.J. Duvall, has some cognitive difficulties determining what is a lie and what is not when he told a group of voters at a mayoral [...]
October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
ANOTHER PHONY VET… By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER People like Blumenthal are the reason that the Vietnam War continues to be debated in this country and will not fade from the public’s conscience. Vietnam Veterans will never forget what they did or went through on returning home and for those lucky enough to have [...]
October 14th, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
ARE YOU FEELING A DRAFT….? By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Today in our country most Americans are detached from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the all-volunteer military pays a high price with multiple combat tours in those war zones. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made that same statement recently at Duke University in [...]
October 9th, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
I fell in love with German Shepherds while I was serving in South Vietnam. I was not a K9 handler but when our slicks Hueys would be loading up the Infantry while we circled above in our C model Huey gunships, I would once in a while see a German Shepherd leaping on board with [...]
September 29th, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
I urge all Veterans and their supporters to contact Senator Richard Burr, Senator Jim Webb and all the other politicians that want to balance the budget on the backs of Veterans. We need to remind politicians that never served in the military like Richard Burr, to stop trying to “change the rules” on Veterans after [...]
September 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
For seven long months now, fast food restaurants that are as American as mom, apple pie and the flag, have been banned from large American bases in Afghanistan. The former commander of America’s armed forces in that country, General Stanley McChrystal, stopped the supplies to Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut and other fast food providers [...]
September 20th, 2010 | Posted in Military,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Veterans have many supporters in our country but none more than Ms. Kelly Trudell, her band and support staff. My wife and I have had the honor to meet this lady and one of her band mates, Daniel Creach, and they are both genuine people that truly care and respect what are active military and [...]
September 16th, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
How ironic, Prudential Financial, Inc., “own a piece of the rock” insurance company started out as The Widows and Orphans Friendly Society. “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan,” seem to be nothing more than words that the Department Of Veterans Affairs uses as a front while they continue to cheat, lie and mislead veterans and their families.
September 16th, 2010 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
The first living recipient to receive the Medal Of Honor since the Vietnam War is Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, he was an Army specialist in Afghanistan when he performed actions on the battlefield that were above and beyond the call of duty. Specialist Giunta put his life on the line to save his fellow soldiers when he and fellow paratroopers were ambushed by the Taliban in 2007. Staff Sergeant Giunta recently received a personal call from President Obama and was informed that he would receive the Medal Of Honor.
September 12th, 2010 | Posted in Heroes,Military | Read More »
A DEBT, NOT A GIFT By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans are patriotic to a fault. Even when we see and hear politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, DC licking their chops looking for ways to cut ENTITLEMENT’S we earned by wearing the military uniform of the United States, we will curse, rant and rave [...]
September 9th, 2010 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
TOO FAT TO FIGHT By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER A group of retired military leaders have come to the conclusion and in fact, they were very blunt, childhood obesity was a major threat to our country’s national security and the report was titled, “Too Fat To Fight.” The overweight problem in our society for [...]
September 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Military | Read More »
WHERE HAVE ALL THE VIETNAM WAR (DRAFT) WAR PROTESTORS GONE? By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans Today Where have all the Vietnam War (DRAFT) protestors gone? I have not seen them around for the past 35 years, could it be that many of them, especially the male baby boomers and their girlfriends, were really [...]
August 16th, 2010 | Posted in Vietnam War,WarZone | Read More »
Full Military Honors Funeral vs Congressional Funeral By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky for Veterans Today When a veteran dies, one entitlement we are guaranteed because of the contract for military service we signed among ourselves and the United States government, is a full military honor funeral if we were discharged from the service under circumstances other [...]
July 19th, 2010 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
To The Readers Of Veterans Today: I am on a mission and I am respectfully asking you to help me because I need your assistance, if you agree with me, to write these reporters and express your anger at the disrespect these journalists are showing our war dead when they dismiss their KIA dates when [...]
June 29th, 2010 | Posted in Military | Read More »
ARE REPORTERS PLAYING WITH STATISTICS TO TAKE ANOTHER CHEAP SWIPE AT VIETNAM VETERANS? By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky for Veterans Today Dear Mr. Stantis (sstantis@tribune.com): While having coffee and reading the morning newspaper with my wife the other morning, she handed me the newspaper with your political cartoon showing the Vietnam and Afghanistan combat veterans. Being [...]
June 20th, 2010 | Posted in Military | Read More »
WHAT WOULD AUDIE MURPHY SAY IF VETERANS TREATMENT WERE CONSIDERED POLITICAL “PORK?” By Joe “Ragman” Tarnovsky for Veteran Today For years Vietnam Veterans had to listen to SOME World War 2 Veterans say, “I was in WW2, the big one, and I do not have any problems from my war.” Well, that was simply not true [...]
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
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