Colonel Glenn D. Frazier

Colonel, Alabama State Defense Force

(Founder) 

"I grew up in South Alabama in the 1930's. Looking at the world through the cotton and corn fields of Lowndes County, I could never have imagined that in just a few short years the entire world would be engulfed in war and that I would be caught in the middle of it. Where I lived, events in Europe and Asia, as menacing as they were, seemed light years away. I would soon discover that they were not so far away after all..." 

So begins this powerful memoir by an Alabama boy who ran away to join the army at the age of 16 and six months later found himself in the doomed struggle to save Bataan from the Japanese advance.  He was captured, marched north in the infamous Bataan Death march and spent the next three years struggling for his life in Japanese POW camps.  Colonel Glenn Frazier is an American above all else, who catches us all up in his story and teaches the one lesson we all need to learn and relearn:  our liberty is out most precious possession and worth the price we must pay to preserve it.

Colonel Frazier is author of the Best-Selling Book, Hell's Guest - which detail his experiences during World War II, The Bataan Death March & 3 1/2-years as a Japanes Prisoner of War.  Get more information about Hell's Guest and purchase a copy at the book's official site: www.HellsGuest.com.  All copies are signed & personalized by Colonel Frazier!

Louis J. Campomenosi, Ph.D.

(Board Member, Leadership Team & Speaker) 

     Louis J. Campomenosi, Ph.D., a retired career-Marine & Gulf War veteran, is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Tulane where he is teaching a variety of political science courses on the War on Terror, the Vietnam War, International Relations, and American Government.

     Dr. Campomenosi is the founder and executive director of The Louisiana Foundation for the Study of the Vietnam War and author of a book under review at Texas Tech University Press entitled Vietnam, U.S. Policy and the New York Times: A Reinterpretation of the Times’ Editorial Coverage, 1945-65.

     Since retiring from the Marines in 1992, he has taught several courses at LSU, UNA, USM, and Tulane on International Relations, American Foreign Policy, War on Terror, American Government, American Political Philosophy and a course on Vietnam entitled Vietnam: Policy and Process. He has presented a number of papers on Vietnam and the New York Times at Texas Tech’s Center for the Study of the Vietnam War.

     Dr. Campomenosi has also participated in many panels on the Vietnam War and on American Foreign Policy; hosted a four-part television series on Vietnam that aired in Baton Rouge in 2001; participated in a debate on the Iraq War at LSU in February 2003, defending the justice of the war; and in March 2006 in another debate at USM’s Gulfport Campus argued that Iraq was a “war of necessity, not choice.”

     While at USM, he wrote several columns in the Biloxi Sun Herald about the Iraq War and one on Homeland Security with his former Tulane colleague Professor David Clinton. In addition, he has spoken at numerous local public organizations on various aspects of the War on Terror and “Threats to the Constitution”.

     More recently, as a result of losing their home in Bay St. Louis during Katrina, Dr. and Mrs. Campomenosi moved to north Alabama, where he taught at the University of North Alabama in Florence and continued to teach at Tulane by commuting once a week to teach classes there. Dr. Campomenosi became involved with the tea party movement in Florence and spoke at the first rally on April 15^th, 2009 and at three more rallies before he and his wife left Florence in the summer of 2009.

     Since moving to Daphne, Dr. Campomenosi has been involved with the Common Sense Campaign on the Leadership team and also serves as a Speaker and Board member.