Smythe DuVal:  

Life After graduating from Briarcliff HS in 1983, I enlisted in the Army and served as a Military Police Officer in Germany. I returned to Atlanta in 1986 and joined the GA National Guard. I studied American Studies at Oglethorpe University and joined the Chi Phi fraternity. In my sophomore year I was diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer, a life event that takes on more significance as I get older and have lost other friends to illness. After graduating I worked for IBM as a Systems/Customer Engineer and I knew every Wal*Mart in south Alabama very well. Hoping to cash in on the 1996 Olympics I bought a condo in Buckhead and attempted to rent it out. Well, that idea didn't work, however, I lived next door to the Peachtree Presybyterian Church where I met my Bride. She is a wonderful, beautiful, feisty New Yorker who doesn't take crap from anyone -- just what I needed! We married in '96 and moved to East Cobb. Ross Perot was denied access to the Presidential debates in 1996 after a 19% showing in 1992. I realized then our democracy was a fraud and that the Democrats and Republicans were self-serving special interests in their own right. I became active in organizing independents and helped build the Reform Party. I was a GA delegate to the 2000 Reform Party convention, and played a part in blocki...Expand for more