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Biography: Thomas D. Segel is a Texan, now of Harlingen in the deep south Rio Grande Valley. A twice-wounded former combat correspondent, he retired after 26 years of service in the United States Marine Corps. Segel holds eight personal decorations for valor and meritorious service. He also holds the Thomas Jefferson Award for Journalistic Excellence and was named Military Writer of the Year.
Segel received his undergraduate degree in government from the University of Texas - Pan American. He is also degreed in English and Journalism and earned a Masters degree in Institutional Advancement from Vanderbilt University. He is nationally published in both print and online media and his conservative writings are distributed by the Paragon News Service. The author of several books, his Men In Space, published by Paladin Press, was selected for both the national high school and junior high school library lists.
Mr. Segel recently retired from a second career as Director, Division of Information, Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Rio Grande State Center. He still continues to serve as a media consultant for that agency. He is also a past national president of the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.
Segel resides in Harlingen, Texas with his wife Pattie. His son, Jason,( a junior high school athletic coordinator and the head tennis coach for both high school and junior high school) along with his wife Jodi, have made Tom and Pattie the proud grandparents of their greatest treasurers Serena, Mariah and Blake.
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Thomas D. Segel Archives
2008-07-04 One Man's Life of Mission
2008-06-28 On Promises Kept, Rank Our Government 'Unsatisfactory'
2008-06-10 A Story of Oil and a "Do Nothing" Congress
2008-06-09 For Those Who Want The Next Election 'Right'
2008-06-08 The Lady Who Welcomes Home heroes
2008-05-31 'Political Science vs. Government - Did They Make Us Lose The Way?'
2008-05-26 The Turning Over of the Falsehood Rock
2008-05-18 'Oil Too Expensive? You And I Are To Blame!'
2008-05-04 More Than Energy in the Wind
2008-04-29 High Oil Prices � Blame The Government You Elected!
2008-04-19 Donkeys, Elephants and Political Truths
2008-04-15 'Where Is Obama's Small Town America?'
2008-02-23 'Where Do We Find Our Values?'
2007-11-29 Cry Patriot, Yet Again
2007-10-27 Political and Religious Correctness Depends Upon Who Is Offended
2007-09-18 Veterans Anger Ignited by Conduct Of Congress and Media
2007-09-16 Graying Devil Dogs Still Growl
2007-09-08 We Need More "Remember When" In Our Lives
2007-09-03 We Need To Learn The History of Islamic Radicals
2007-08-31 Our Government - A Political Cesspool
2007-06-24 Our Apocalyptic Government
2007-05-20 Lawsuit Abuse Gone Wild: Now They Attack Those On The Sidelines
2007-05-15 More About What We Are Really Thinking
2007-05-13 'What We Are Really Thinking?'
2007-04-27 Troops Angered Over Reid "War Is Lost" Statement
2007-04-22 'A Cure For The Heartache In America?'
2007-04-20 Remembering The Forgotten Heroes
2007-04-19 Shed Tears For All The Fallen
2007-04-14 The Abominable Dr. Chu: DOD Attack Dog
2007-03-26 'Veterans: What Are They Seeing And Thinking Now?'
2007-02-23 Cry Christians
2006-10-24 Israel and the Pershmerga
2006-10-21 A New Tactic For Iraq? Perhaps A Muslim Scholar Has The Answer
2006-10-13 Conservatives Find New Media Homes
2006-09-19 Want To Live To A Ripe Old Age? Here's A Tip!
2006-09-09 Veterans View The Upcoming Election
2006-08-26 The Day of The Ice Truck Revisited
2006-08-24 All For The Children
2006-07-21 Another Thief Steals Military Valor
2006-06-16 When It Comes To The Military - Is The Mainstream Media Still "Yellow"?
2006-05-27 The Senate Sings Us A Sad Song
2006-05-25 Has The Republican Party Lost Its Mind? - Some Conservatives Think So!
2006-05-15 Congress, Choose Who You Attack Carefully
2006-05-11 Did Congress Celebrate ‘Endangered Species Day’?
2006-05-11 Bombast and Blather - A People's View of Congress
2006-04-30 Too Soon! A Cry of Denial
2006-04-07 “Pappy” Boyington Protest Creates Medal of Honor Memorial Resolution
2006-04-05 input sought
2006-03-25 Do We Color It “Propaganda”?
2006-03-14 Are We At War Against Terror or Islam?
2006-03-07 Guess What? The VA Is Another Republican Miscue!
2006-03-02 Why A Taliban At Yale?
2006-02-27 Attack of the Mindnumbed Educators
2006-02-19 Political Celebrities...Do They Matter?
2006-02-11 Just Caring For Eddie
2006-02-04 Just When Is A Cartoon Offensive?
2006-01-27 The ACLU Feeds Heavily At The Public Trough
2006-01-20 My Television Screen Is Becoming A Garbage Can
2006-01-18 Could Attitudes Concerning John Murtha Be Changing?
2006-01-10 Terrorist Involvement - Was There Or Wasn’t There?
2006-01-04 Washington Post Articles Show Bias by Omission
2005-12-19 …And Where Are The Media Cries To Find The Leaker?
2005-12-12 Salon.com Makes Misleading Accusation Concerning Iraq Casualties
2005-12-08 Did The Government Let Its Veterans Die?
2005-12-06 Attacks on Christmas Continue
2005-12-02 Democrat Proclamations Of Failure Are Refuted By Iraq Accomplishments
2005-11-23 More Voices on the War
2005-11-02 Washington Post Proclaims “Journalistic Shield”
2005-10-28 Libby Charges and the New York Times Obsession with Rove
2005-10-27 One View of Our Media Death Watch
2005-10-24 Warning! Republicans Are Losing Veteran Support Over Failed Promises!
2005-10-21 Has Prayer Become Controlled Speech:
2005-10-12 So Where Is The Good News?
2005-10-02 New Mantra of the Left Infects Most Political News
2005-10-01 Does The Media Promote Racism?
2005-09-18 A Look Behind The Anti-Pledge of Allegiance Movement
2005-09-10 Tugboats and Katrina
2005-08-30 Selective Reporting Reveals The Media Does “Not” Support Our Military
2005-08-27 Media Bias Revealed In Its Failure To Report Heroism
2005-08-24 Why Did The Media Lose “Why”?
2005-08-15 Are The Media Poisoning American Resolve?
2005-07-21 For Veterans, Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
2005-05-29 Department Of Defense – A Veteran's Worst Enemy
2005-05-02 Border Security – A Major Citizen Concern Being Ignored
2005-04-22 Illegal Border Crossings Stir Citizen Anger
2005-04-15 And They Claim We Have Border Security
2005-04-04 More Equal Than Others
2005-02-28 "Promises Made - Promise Kept," Just A Political Shell Game
2005-02-16 Veterans Find Some Things Hard To Chu
2005-02-09 Congress Needs To Think "Out Of The Box"
2005-02-07 Hey Senator...They’re Already Fighting!
2005-02-03 News From Iraq...Military Style
2005-01-17 Greetings From Sri Lanka
2005-01-12 Treated Like A Brown Paper Bag
2004-12-24 Christianity Attacked By ACLU Terrorists
2004-12-22 What Is Behind The "Hate Christians" Campaign?
2004-12-17 Red Is The Color Of Christmas
2004-10-18 Letters From The Warlords
2004-10-04 Long Distance Campaigner
2004-09-28 Veterans React To Wounded Soldier’s Beating
2004-09-26 Does This Hate Honor America?
2004-09-20 The Real Concern About Rathergate
2004-08-29 The Economy's What?
2004-08-07 John Kerry And The Unasked/Unanswered Questions
2004-08-02 What Democrats Should Know About Celebrity Support
2004-08-01 Lets Face It America - We Are Fighting World War III
2004-07-30 Where They Really Stand
2004-07-29 Who Are The Montagnards And Why Are They Dying?
2004-07-28 Why Do They Hate Their Own Country?
2004-07-27 Why Was Private Jack Stone Killed? And Was The Army Blind?
2004-07-26 Will This Activist David Slay The VA Giant?
2004-07-23 Whatever Happened To The Real Democrats?
2004-07-13 …And The Media Says, “We Support Our Military”
2004-07-09 What Should We Call It….Slow Death By Coverup?
2004-07-08 Maddening Media Misrepresentation
2004-07-07 Why Do They Hate Their Own Country?
2004-07-06 Another Visit To The Good Old Days
2004-07-03 Where Are The Media Heroes?
2004-06-29 Does Iraq’s Sovereignty Change The Muslim Heart?
2004-06-27 There They Go Again
2004-06-26 The Wigwam That Kept Nobody Safe
2004-06-25 Muslims They Immigrate, But Do They Assimilate?
2004-06-25 Cry Patriot
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