Jody Green:  

2010 - 2103: What is Jody Green doing in Hawaii ? I would like to say this is a happy story of getting rich and living my dream in Hawaii. But not so, it cost me $3M to get here and here is the "funny" story ! I was living in Blissfield, MI where I was buying several properties and renovating them. I had the Odd Fellows hall downtown for over 20 years and was approached by a woman named Kay Brown who wanted to buy that building. I gave her a very reasonable price and she responded that she did not want to buy at that price but wanted to buy it for the price I had paid for it 20+ years prior. I told her that it had 500,000 bricks in it, tin ceilings through-out, hard maple floors, and lots of other building materials which I could sell for much, much, so much more than her offer. I told her I would rather tear it down than sell it to her for her offer. Actually, I would never have torn the building down; I had done years of restoration work to Rebekah. I loved that old building named "Rebekah" and wanted to restore her to her former glory. And I had all of the wonderful antiques and antique building materiaIs to do just that. I have always loved antiques and old buildings. I actually remembered that building from my childhood when we would take rides up into Michigan which was one of the reasons I bought it. I also told her I would get the village some recognition on the TV when I had the building imploded ! The next week police chief Jane, her friend and co-conspirator, came to my house and threatened "to arrest and try me as a terrorist, if I did not cease and desist their efforts to gain my properties". They also wanted the 36 prime commercial acres that I controlled on US 223 directly across from McDonalds. I had approximately $750,000+ into those properties; and Brown (her husband is on the village council) and the important "village people" now own that acreage. They purchased it for $150,000 at an sham auction where there was only one other bidder. I was then forced to sell 60,000 sq. ft. of wonderful antiques which I had collected for 40 years. I was going to convert the old Cannery into an entertainment complex with it's own bar, soda fountain, chapel, rental hall, etc. etc. All with those architectural antiques and collections I had saved for my dream. I was forced to liquidate and had $3M stolen from me by the greedy, hateful people who had tried to run me out of town for 20 years because I owned too much of their town. Then the Old Barn Auction, Vicki X? and Tim Speck, in Findlay, wholesaled my $1M antique lighting collection against my wishes for $100K and the auctioneer in Atlanta, GA just never paid me for the 4 - 20 ft. trailers loaded with wonderful antiques which I shipped to him. You can watch that lying SOB's Atlanta auction Gallery 63 on TV ! So, I ran away to Hawaii to avoid being arrested and tried as a terrorist, which would not have even allow me to defend my self. Forty years of my work, love, and savings stolen by greedy, evil people and the village of bliss. This is the reward for going to war, "doing My duty" for my country. And because I am a Nam Vet, they used the terrorist law to get me out of town. How can people be so greedy and evil ? Don't they have a conscience ? "Just another day in the Nam !" As we said in Nam, "Life's a Bitc_, and then you die." And we still are !!!!!!!!!! Nov. 2013, Story Update; I just re-connected with a couple Nam Vets I served with. They were at Nam Hoa also. One guy was my squad leader and inadvertently saved my life by refusing to proceed into the ambush that night. He told our Lt. and Captain, that it was unsafe to proceed because it was getting dark and it would be unwise to walk into an ambush at night. We had already seen tunnel entrances, "spider holes" and evidence of the enemy and it was spooky quiet when we had "re-conned" to "the fallen log" across the trail. But the NVA didn't want just our squad, they wanted the whole company in their ambush. He was dead-on correct; the Captain said "F___ him and his men" and he proceeded up the trail. Not 5 minutes later, he walked the replacement point squad into the fires of Hell. The NVA had the fallen log as the pre-designated ambush site, and hit them with RPG's, ...Expand for more