The Monkey on Don Hall’s Back

Those of you following the neverending psychosis that is Don Hall and his false allegations against F/58th Infantry will find this to be a true gem. The following email was sent by Don to our friend Kender, who graciously hosted us last summer on his radio show for a week discussing the Brother Against Brother series. We’ve been provided a copy of the email, and decided to post it here due to the new information contained in it. We think you’ll be as intrigued as we were.

I am the guy that you called early in the morning and woke me up for your radio show or whatever it is that Ms. Kit Jarrell and Heidi X were on your show, remember? I did hear that the two female girl Bloggers were going to send you copies of the 300 pages of DA1594 records. Did they? I doubt that they would because the records undo their story or should I say, their ten part hit-piece on me and my wife. The US Army Rangers and Spec/Ops community are on this matter now and I have a letter of support from the World-Wide Rangers, Inc. Ex. Director.

As you’ll see later, dear readers, Don’s idea of early is our lunchtime. Then again, you’ll understand why he doesn’t like to take calls in the morning in just a moment. Trust us - it’s priceless. As for the whole “letter of support” thing, let’s just say not everyone is able to correctly distinguish truth from reality. Of course, if you’re familiar with this story, then you’ve seen this idea in action already.

Mr. Gary Linderer does not have the 2 Silver Stars and 2 Purple Heats that he claims he earned for the same day’s combat. That’s a military impossibility!

Actually, no it’s not impossible at all, and we have proof of that, including another man who received a Purple Heart, two Silver Stars, and a Bronze Star for the same day’s action. The Army makes mistakes sometimes. In fact, on Hall’s own DD214 it lists his base as Fort Washington, Alaska. There is no Fort Washington; there is, however, a Fort Wainwright.

Your ever serve in the Army? If you ever want to call me again, call the day before and make arrangements. I had a book deal with Random House in 1993/1994 and after the editor told me about what he had to do too smooth these authors’ books out I sent the money back and broke the book contract. Linderer wanted me to loan him $7, 500.00 for his shoe-string BTL magazine that he started. I wanted his DOB, SSN to run a credit check on him. Business 101 and because I had been hearing rumors, at the time, that he did not have the military awards that he claimed I asked Linderer for a copy of his DD214. He never sent the DD214 and I never invested in his BTL magazine and he had someone wrote a hit-piece about my book in his magazine by someone who was not even in Vietnam and in the unit that this guy wrote about smearing me and calling me a liar. Linderer is smooth at using other people to do his dirty work. I eventually busted him for copy infringement. Random House settled the matter with us quickly because we had everything in writing. Of the over 1,000 pages of records, documents and sworn depositions of Linderer under oath and written statements notarized by people these two Bloggers only used one page in their story against us calling it “BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER.” Don’t you think that a “little school yard girl thing” trying to get two guys to fight over them? It’s simply about truth against fictional and recreational writing.

We already proved this entire paragraph to be false, so I’m not going to revisit it. All of the above is a flat-out lie, and the “everything in writing” is also pretty shoddy, since I have copies of it all and the only thing it shows is that the Halls are adept at twisting words, patching lies together with unrelated facts, and presenting it all as “truth.” The Halls like to whine that they have “extra” or “new” information that they held back from us, but if they had a smoking gun of some sort, they’d have given it up early.

Kit and Heidi said that they had Linderer sign a Form 180 in July 2005 to release to them Linderer’s full military records and they did not. See their web page with photos of them copying Linderer’s military records at his home or office in Branson, MO. If you really want a big story that will put you out there call me. After all, Linderer was a clerk after the combat actions of 20 Nov. 1968 and if you were ever in the Army you knew what clerks could do? Did Linderer have someone like General Fred Weyand supporting his books? Did Linderer have someone like General Norman Schwarzkopf in our award-winning documentary “SILENT VICTORY?” No he and the other authors did not.

So now he’s accusing Linderer of fixing his own records. It’s not working anymore to accuse the entire 101st Airborne of engaging in a cover-up, so now Hall will just make something up.

If you want a copy of my book and the documentary, let me know? It’ll change your head about what is really real.

The above is way more amusing once you read what’s below.

I’ll save you some time and send you what I have found and you can make up your own mind or read that national archives true copies posted on my web page at: www.i-served.com. If you read about F/58 LRP with the 101st Airborne Division that was Linderer’s team # 24 on 20 Nov. 1968. Compare those contemporaneous records with what he wrote and some other dozen authors wrote. Big stretch from claims of Linderer’s that they killed over 200 NVA soldiers on 20 Nov. 1968, when the records show a body count of ten (10) at the end of the day that include the nine mostly unarmed Vietnamese (5) males and (4) females reported in as “rice porters” that they ambushed not a NVA medical staff as Linderer wrote. And then, you have Det. B-36 Special Forces commanded by (then) Major James Bo Gritz. Read those and see why that LT. Williams was accidentally killed on purpose. You can see what these two marginal units had in common.

“Save you some time and send you what I found…” Right. In other words, “Here, I’ll spoonfeed you what I want you to see, and then you can’t help but agree with my asinine and illogical conclusions.”

If you want a real BIG STORY give me a call off the radio, of course, and let’s chat first. It’s coming out and those two Bloggers missed the truth by a long shot. This is about the STOLEN VALOR ACT H.R. 3352. Congressmen have called me about it and you will see what is going to happen.

Hall is a chronic name-dropper, as if you couldn’t tell. What he fails to mention is that most of the people he claims support him have since retracted that support after seeing the truth of how singlemindedly obsessed Hall is with Linderer’s career. Time after time men who initially tried to help Hall or defend him have found out the hard way that Hall’s obsession is so all-consuming that he will literally stop at nothing to destroy Linderer, even if it means making up stories, harrassing business partners and associates of Linderer, and threatening the physical well-being of those who disagree.

PS: Kit and Heidi knew that I’ve had two low back surgeries and I am disabled due to a broken back suffered in Vietnam in 1968 and I told them numerous times not to call me in the morning because I take 45 mg of Morphine. They should be so lucky, huh?

And here is where it all gets fun.

First of all, Hall was a LRP for 7 1/2 months (20 Oct 1967-4 July 1968), according to a Freedom of Information Act request that I have here in front of me. He claims in his book that the reason he was pulled out of the field and sent to the hospital is because he had a bad cough that endangered his team on missions. However, in the above paragraph he claims he broke his back in Vietnam in 1968. Let’s look at the facts.

After 11 months in Vietnam (11 Aug 1967-4 July 1968), he was sent to Roanoke, VA as a patient on 4 Jul 1968. The very next day, on 5 July, he was sent to Kenner Army Hospital at Fort Lee, which among other things was known for its extensive psychiatric facilities. According to his records, he stayed there until 28 Aug 1968, at which time he was sent to Fort Bragg, NC, and given a new job at 82nd Division HQ, as a “Sp Instr. School Det.” My question is, if he broke his back bad enough in 1968 to have to undergo two surgeries and be on 45 mg of morphine per dose, how is it that he was fit to return to duty after only 52 days?

They called me in the morning on your show and when they got in touch with Linderer who is one gifted used-car salesman-type who used his claims of two fake Silver Stars and two Purple Hearts to bullshit his way into Ross Perot’s office they started calling me in between the hours that I asked them not too.

This is a copy of the phone records showing all calls from Don Hall to me during the months of June and July, 2005, when Heidi and I were researching the Brother Against Brother story. (Calls from his personal cell phone were not counted in this total.) Please note that the “To” number listed is area code 810, which is Flint, Michigan, in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. Since Hall lives in Redmond, Washington, his local time would be 3 hours behind. As you can see, exactly half of the calls made by Hall to me were not between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm, which he outlines in the next paragraph as his preferred time for phone calls due to his medication. Am I to assume that any calls made outside of Hall’s 4-hour window of lucidity were conversations where he was under the influence of what to a healthy person would be a potentially lethal dose of morphine?

According to several sites I looked at, morphine “impairs your ability to think.” 30mg of morphine in a single dose can be lethal for someone who does not normally use morphine. However, for someone who is a habitual user (even if on a prescription for it), the lethal dose is higher. Therefore, Hall has apparently been on morphine for quite some time. Based on this, it is also important to point out the long-term effects of morphine use, many of which are outlined in the above articles. They include impaired judgment, drowsiness, nightmares, lethargy, and a lowered level of dopamine in the brain, as evidenced by this study.

What’s interesting is this theory, which suggests that “the unusual behaviour and experiences associated with schizophrenia (sometimes extended to psychosis in general) can be fully or largely explained by changes in dopamine function in the brain.” While there is evidence both for and against this idea, as explained here, it seems to be generally accepted that dopamine levels play a part in certain mental disorders. While I am not a doctor and would never seek to offer a definitive opinion, I did find the information intriguing.

I called Mr. Perot and he realized that he was being duped again by associates of James “Bo” Gritz. Long story from years ago, but Mr. Perot was one pissed off Texan and I sent him the records. So if you want you call me between the hours of 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. If you’d like, if not that’s okay too.

Hall outlines a 4-hour window during which he is apparently lucid enough to accept calls and claims that I called him during times he requested that I not call, and yet I again direct your attention to the fact that the phone records I showed you are all calls from Don Hall to me. This is not to say I never called Hall. However, as you can see from the list of my calls to him, I only called them 5 times, and two of those were on June 3 due to connection problems on our first three-way call with Heidi.

If you are one who thinks it is okay for US military personnel to frag or plant a toe-popper mine that blew off the foot of their new CO based on rumors that they heard about this new officer then don’t go any further. Kit and Heidi think snitch is bad, but in Linderer’s case it’s okay. Moral relativism they seem to have a lot of, I guess.

Moral relativism is not a trait Heidi and I possess, as any reader of this blog is well aware. However, after the points outlined above, I’m not that worried about any accusations coming from Don Hall. After all, he’s the one on morphine.

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