Date: November 11, 2005 8:43:37 AM PST
Subject: Lt. Colonel Marvin-TrineDay Legal Defense Fund
Lt. Colonel Marvin-TrineDay Legal Defense Fund
Dear Friends and believers in the right to publish the TRUTH: We Need You!!
We Are Two Against the Special Forces Association and we are literally Fighting For Our Survival!!
Harassment lawsuit threatens to bankrupt small publisher and silence a citizen's First Amendment Rights.
We owe our attorneys approximately $30,000 for what they have done thus far, we are close to bankruptcy, have paid them approx. $35,000 to date and anticipate another $60 - $100 thousand to finish litigation. The Special Forces Association wants Marvin's book off the market and want to ruin Marvin & TrineDay financially so that they may no longer author or publish the truth about covert operations.
Please Help Us!! We are just regular folk, already stretched thin.
72 Year-Old Lt. Col. "Dangerous Dan" Marvin and TrineDay, an Oregon publishing house, are defending themselves in a costly legal battle to exercise their first amendment rights that began in Federal District Court in Charleston, SC on October 31, 2005. On Wednesday, November 2, a mistrial was declared. The plaintiffs lead attorney bizarrely disappeared from the courthouse the day before and admitted himself to a local hospital. The trial is rescheduled for January 2006. On trial is Col. Marvin and his book, Expendable Elite – One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare: a Vietnam wartime story of his experience commanding an independent Special Forces operation in 1966 in the district of An Phu among the Hoa Haos (Wha Hows), a militant Buddhist sect. The book was written in 1988 and published in 2003 by TrineDay. The Special Forces Association (SFA), a fraternal organization of active and retired operatives has tried to brashly influence these legal proceedings. The SFA has bankrolled the plaintiff's action, supplying lawyers, and apparently even advancing expense money to the plaintiffs. The SFA has a history of "steamrolling" other historical revelations. Any one who reads this book will know they are laying down a smoke screen, hoping to convince a jury that what they say is true and that the book is a lie. But the book is true, based on personal recollections, government documents and third parties and by corroboration by certain of the plaintiffs themselves who now try to disavow the truth. The book was well researched by the publisher and of course sets forth the true accounts of Col. Marvin. This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to keep secret what the public should know.
You can help us as we fight for the survival of the truth by writing a check to our "Marvin/TrineDay Defense Fund", and mailing it to P.O. Box 577, Walterville, Oregon 97489 or by donating through either PayPal, the Amazon Honor system.You can also help by buying a book or two, and/or by placing a link to this page on your website. Our store website was severely hacked (which has disrupted our sales) but we have in its place a pay pal version. Priority USPS 3- Day shipping has been added to the price of the books.
You may also order a signed book direct from the author, donate or ask any questions
Call Kris at 1-800-556-2012 or Dangerous Dan at 315-655-3053. Signed books are available at either source.
Thank-you. And may God bless you and yours.
Kris Millegan LTC Daniel Marvin
TrineDay Retired Green Beret & author of Expendable Elite
You may donate to our Legal Defense Fund through PayPal here,
OR, through the
Amazon Honor System,
Amazon Honor System
Please help us survive these attacks so they can continue to get this important information out to those who seek it.
Send checks or money orders to:
Marvin-TrineDay Legal Defense Fund
P.O. Box 577
Walterville,OR 97489
Make your checks or money orders payable to Marvin-TrineDay Legal Defense Fund. Thank-you!!!
We sincerely appreciate your help in this effort,
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired), Author,
and
Robert A. (Kris) Millegan, Publisher, TrineDay Press
