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teaches the new generation of Southern
gents how to have a little old-school fun

M AG A Z I N E

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House of 1,000
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Georgia Northwestern Technical

courses
14 NWGA BLACKBOARD
College’s Culinary Arts Program
turns a 107-year-old home into a veritable
buffet of learning for aspriring ‘foodies’

textmiranda mcgill+neal howard

photossabrina wilson

Chef Greg Paulson and GNTC Culinary welcome Resident business insider, J. Bryant
NWGA’s aspiring foodies to the Woodlee House Steele, explains our economic future
14 vini vidi vici / v3 magazine vini vidi vici / v3 magazine 15 for a taste of higher learning in terms of four-wheelers, funky
menu requests and fudged numbers
While You Were
Sleeping Photo by Foxworthy Studios

21 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

V3 looks at the who, when, where,
why and, of course, WHAT you
may have missed in May 2010

44 TAKE ON HEALTH
ROMAN ROAST ON
THE RIVER 5.7-8.2010
>>>Funnel cakes, classic cars,
Wild Bill’s Olde Fashion Soda
Pop, live music, a sunny spring

That’ll do, pig. V3 Magazine hits the first annual

day at Ridge Ferry Park: What
more could you ask for?
Well, for starters, how about the best barbeque
in Northwest Georgia—and lots of it.
The first balmy days 2010 carried the sweet,
sticky smell of Southern BBQ all the way to Turner
McCall Boulevard last month, courtesy of the

What you don’t know—or screen—

first annual Roman Roast on the River. And if the
temptation of ribs-’a-roasting didn’t lead you to
the banks of the Etowah for a taste, you may very
well have missed the biggest BBQ-fueled blowout
in Northwest Georgia history, as folks from across
the region amassed to sample creations from the
best professional grillers and backyard enthusiasts

Roman Roast on the River in an effort to relay to all

this side of the Mississippi.
“Rome is the perfect fit for a barbeque
competition, drawing crowds from all over North

Photo by Foxworthy Studios Georgia and neighboring states,” said Ann Horton
of the Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau. “With
the great success of this inaugural event, we look
forward to the seeing it grow bigger every year.”

could certainly hurt you. Luckily,

Patrons of the Roman Roast experienced a
weekend chock full of entertainment and activities,
as well, including “Porky’s Playground” for the
youngsters, rousing musical performances courtesy
of a local “Battle of the Bands”, booths hosted by
local artisans and, of course, the competition to
determine whose BBQ recipe would be deemed

you couch potatoes precisely what you missed

the sweetest. Even the Floyd County Sheriff’s
Department sponsored the “Dunk-A-Cop” booth,
which, when all was said and done, managed to raise
$1,500 for Camp Good Time, a special needs camp
for local youth. All additional proceeds from the
event benefited the Rome-Floyd Sports Hall of Fame
Scholarship program. VVV

Harbin Clinic’s Dr. John Kirkland is

More pics & events, pgs. 22-23
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As a young boy, you lionize the exploits of

here to lend us some sound advice
a veteran soldier on the field of battle. As
a young man, you envy the work ethic.

26 SMALL TALK: Q+A

Fresh from completing the second novel in his Kennesaw
Tanner series, Lowcountry, Command Sergeant Major
Eric Haney (Ret.) isn’t suffering the sort of
creative hangover one might expect from a softer, less vetted
artist. In fact, when I catch up with him in the second-floor
writing quarters of his Cave Spring home, Haney is clearly on
the grind, haggling with some bigwig or another by phone.
“No, that’ll be fine,” he tells the mystery player, beckoning me
inside with an open palm and a muted, Hi, be right with ya.
Refusing to make the same mistake so many jihadists and
guerillas surely have, I oblige, sweetening my contrition with a
smile.
Most folks across Northwest Georgia are no doubt familiar
with Haney’s achievements by now, namely his breakout New
York Times Bestseller, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s

Editor-in-Chief Neal Howard sits down with

Elite Counterterrorism Unit, and its subsequent, hit CBS
television series, The Unit. Some are even hip to his bit part as
“Major General Meade” in the big-budget summer blockbuster,
Iron Man 2. Few, however, have been privy to the self-made
history belying the man who, even fewer would argue, now
dons the crown as Northwest Georgia’s most viable working
artist.
Big whoop-tee-doo to Haney. After all, when you’ve spent
half your life dodging 7.62mm rounds from the business end of

>>>>>>>
an enemy assault rifle, it isn’t all that tough motivating oneself to
strike

while
the iron NWGA’s most prolific working author/producer,
is hot
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interviewneal howard
PHOTOSSABRINA WILSON

vini vidi vici / v3 magazine 27 Eric Haney, to get the scoop on his latest brainchild

ForWhom the
bells
toll
37 COVER STORY
TEXTJ.BRYANT STEELE
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After 80 years spent turning out countless numbers of fine young

men, Mentone, Ala.’sLookoutMountain Camp for Boys
maintains that it isn’t a place to “park” your son for
the summer, but one from which he can emerge a man

Lookout Mountain Camp for Boys tells us why,

after 80 years of shaping young Southerners’ lives,
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 PUBLISHER’S NOTE

It’s summer in Northwest M AG A Z I N E

Georgia, and with that
comes so much more
than the humidity we
NW GEORGIA’S PREMIER FEATURE READER

Lookout Mountain Camp for Boys

Southerners are conditioned

teaches the new generation of Southern
gents how to have a little old-school fun

M AG A Z I N E

to endure. Dreams of a well-

deserved vacation draw
the actual event closer each Boys of
day. Weekends at the lake, SUMMER
kids off to camp, steaks on
the grill—just a few of the
simple pleasures that come
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with this otherwise grueling,

sweat-soaked season. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF +
PRODUCTION MANAGER +
This month’s edition of V3 Magazine ART&DESIGN
marks our four-year anniversary as neal howard
“Northwest Georgia’s Premier Feature Reader,” and over these past 48 months
(this issue being our 49th) we have had the opportunity to cover so many STAFF WRITERS
meaningful stories and meet so many wonderful people. This June is no anna armas, will seifert,
different. In fact, this edition of V3 offers a finely, evenly distributed example of reagen lowrey, matt rood,
just the kind of high-caliber Georgians we aim to highlight; not to mention the brian foster, j. bryant steele,
dianna edwards
range of organizational and community-based programs that make our region
such a spectacular place to call home. PHOTOGRAPHY
Granted, it’s a smaller issue—as often tends to be the case in summer—but sabrina wilson, neal howard
what it lacks in girth, it no doubt makes up for in punch. For example, be sure
to check out the feature on Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s fresh- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOS
from-the-oven Culinary Arts program, which seems to have geared itself toward foxworthy studios, kristi kent
providing our food and beverage industry with wave upon wave of bright new CONTRIBUTING WRITER
cooking buffs. Neal Howard’s in-depth interview with author/TV producer miranda mcgill
extraordinaire, Eric Haney, who grew up in Lindale as a matter of fact, is one of
the best Q&As we’ve ever run, and contains a wealth of insider info about show CHIEF OF ADVERTISING +
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column, Cents & Sensibility, Harbin Clinic’s monthly Take on Health, and a REPRESENTATIVE
quick look back to May’s Roman Roast on the River, via our resuscitated and jeff miller
revitalized While You Were Sleeping department.
The time has come to crank up the AC units, stock up on bug repellent and ORIGINAL AD DESIGN
break out your swimsuits, folks. And I can assure you, we here at V3 look brittany howes
forward to sweating it out with you beneath that angry old Georgia sun. (We’ll PUBLISHER
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 Georgia Northwestern Technical
College’s Culinary Arts Program
turns a 107-year-old home into a veritable
buffet of learning for aspiring “foodies”

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T hanks to the great
success of reality
cooking shows and a
boom in celebrity chef
personalities such as
Paula Deen, working one’s
magic in the kitchen has
never been hotter.
And while aspiring chefs across Northwest
Georgia wouldn’t necessarily employ the
words “hot” or “glamorous” to describe
themselves, with the launch of Georgia
Northwestern Technical College’s Culinary
Arts program, offered at the school’s Floyd
County Campus, those looking to make a
potential career out of catering, cooking or
baking don’t have to venture too far from
home to get their culinary lives off to a
sizzling start.
Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York City,
Chicago, St. Thomas, Seattle—all desirable
travel destinations. But GNTC Culinary’s
executive chef and program director, Greg
Paulson, a top-honors graduate from the
Culinary Institute of America in Hyde
Park, New York, was afforded the luxury
of staying in each for longer than a few

“We have a state-of-

the-art facility and
all-new equipment,
from small wares...
to major appliances.
Everything is 100
percent brand new.”
nights. Paulson’s serious skills scored him
enviable, resumé-friendly jobs in all of the
aforementioned cities, and for the nine years
prior to taking on his most recent challenge,
he filled the same role for Rome’s Coosa
Country Club. Swanky hotels, four-star
restaurants, private clubs, ritzy resorts, you
name it: Paulson has been there, diced that.
These days, however, he has made it his
mission to ensure that the next generation
of young chefs learn the culinary arts world

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Chef Greg Paulson
Director/Instructor,
GNTC Culinary Arts
down to the last morsel, including not just
how to wield a steady knife, but also how
to deftly execute business-related tasks
such as food purchasing, proper sanitation,
remaining mindful of diner nutrition, and
the best way to develop a palatable menu.
Students won’t be learning their craft in a
drab classroom, either. Instead, they’ll be
honing their chops inside the charming and
historic Woodlee House, which, though
originally constructed in 1903, has now
been completely renovated—better yet,
reimagined—by GNTC and its veteran
chef. Paulson hand-picked every detail of
this so-called classroom, from the plates to
the paint colors and upholstery fabrics, to
create precisely the cutting-edge learning
laboratory he had envisioned. He recalls
that after being given the green light to
design the labs at GNTC, he took his
time compiling the necessary research,
scrutinizing labs at other schools and
speaking with their culinary directors in
order to devise the best possible space for
his future pupils.
“I wanted to determine what [those
schools would do differently if given the
opportunity to build from the ground up]…,”
says Paulson. The result: “We have a state-
of-the-art facility and all-new equipment,
from small wares such as pots and pans to
major appliances. Everything is 100 percent
brand new.
“Another factor making this culinary
program unique to competing institutes is
that we are located next to the horticulture
department, and they will be [growing] fresh
herbs and produce for us, which will be
beneficial to their students, as well as ours.”
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Onceupon a time...
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And with so much media
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meet these elevated standards. To boot,
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GNTC Culinary offers degree and
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beginner to expert is encouraged to sign
on. Chef Paulson says, depending on the
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expect to pin down work as line or pastry
cooks following graduation, while more
advanced students who also excel in the
classroom will likely find employment as
head or sous chefs.
For those looking to simply sharpen their
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Choose from an assortment of courses
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“Knife Skills Workshop” and/or “Basic
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classes are also available, primarily designed
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 MANY A SMALL THING
HAS BEEN MADE
LARGE
BY THE
RIGHT KIND
OF ADVERTISING.
-MARK TWAIN

MA
GA
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While You Were
Sleeping
V3 looks at the who, when, where,
Photo by Foxworthy Studios

why and, of course, WHAT you

may have missed in May 2010

ROMAN ROAST ON
THE RIVER 5.7-8.2010
>>>Funnel cakes, classic cars,
Wild Bill’s Olde Fashion Soda
Pop, live music, a sunny spring
day at Ridge Ferry Park: What
more could you ask for?
Well, for starters, how about the best barbeque
in Northwest Georgia—and lots of it.
The first balmy days of 2010 carried the sweet,
sticky smell of Southern BBQ all the way to Turner
McCall Boulevard last month, courtesy of the
first annual Roman Roast on the River. And if the
temptation of ribs-’a-roasting didn’t lead you to
the banks of the Etowah for a taste, you may very
well have missed the biggest BBQ-fueled blowout
in Northwest Georgia history, as folks from across
the region amassed to sample creations from the
best professional grillers and backyard enthusiasts
this side of the Mississippi.
“Rome is the perfect fit for a barbeque
competition, drawing crowds from all over North

Photo by Foxworthy Studios Georgia and neighboring states,” says Ann Horton
of the Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau. “With
the great success of this inaugural event, we look
forward to the seeing it grow bigger every year.”
Patrons of the Roman Roast experienced a
weekend chock full of entertainment and activities,
including “Porky’s Playground” for the youngsters,
rousing musical performances courtesy of a local
“Battle of the Bands”, booths hosted by NWGA
artisans and, of course, the competition to determine
whose BBQ recipe would be deemed the sweetest.
Even the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department
sponsored the “Dunk-A-Cop” booth, which, when
all was said and done, managed to raise $1,500
for Camp Good Time, a special needs camp for
local youth. All additional proceeds from the event
benefited the Rome-Floyd Sports Hall of Fame
Scholarship program. VVV

More pics & events, pgs. 22-23

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 Photos by Kristi Kent

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 As a young boy, you lionize the exploits of
a veteran soldier on the field of battle. As
a young man, you envy the work ethic.
Fresh from completing the second novel in his Kennesaw
Tanner series, Lowcountry, Command Sergeant Major
Eric Haney (Ret.) isn’t suffering the sort of
creative hangover one might expect from a softer, less vetted
artist. In fact, when I catch up with him in the second-floor
writing quarters of his Cave Spring home, Haney is clearly on
the grind, haggling with some bigwig or another by phone.
“No, that’ll be fine,” he tells the mystery player, beckoning me
inside with an open palm and a muted, Hi, be right with ya.
Refusing to make the same mistake so many jihadists and
guerillas surely have, I oblige, sweetening my contrition with a
smile.
Most folks across Northwest Georgia are no doubt familiar
with Haney’s achievements by now, namely his breakout New
York Times Bestseller, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s
Elite Counterterrorism Unit, and its subsequent, hit CBS
television series, The Unit. Some are even hip to his bit part as
“Major General Meade” in the big-budget summer blockbuster,
Iron Man 2. Few, however, have been privy to the self-made
history belying the man who, even fewer would argue, now
dons the crown as Northwest Georgia’s most viable working
artist.
Big whoop-tee-doo to Haney. After all, when you’ve spent
half your life dodging 7.62mm rounds from the business end of

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[V3:] Which
would you say is
more difficult,
commanding
real-life soldiers
in combat or
convincing
Don Cheadle to
weaponize his
“Variable Threat
Response Battle
Suit”?
[EH:] (Laughs)
That’s a pretty easy
one, because he
had to do it in the
movie. [Cheadle]
had to follow the
script.
Well, that certainly helps. What can you
tell us about Major General Meade, the
character you play in Iron Man 2?
Don Cheadle plays the number two lead
in the movie, Lt. Col. Rhodes, an Air Force
officer, and in the scene that I have, I am his
commander. Basically, [Meade] comes in
and coerces Rhodes into doing something
that he doesn’t really want to do.
Meade’s motivation being?
…As he says, “It’ll get the Senate off my a—.”
As a writer who dabbles in acting, let’s
move away from the character you
recently played onscreen to the one
you recently brought to bookshelves
nationwide: Kennesaw Tanner. Fill our
readers in on the lead protagonist from
No Man’s Land, the first installment from
your new fiction series.
Kennesaw Tanner has a background in
Black Operations with the military and the
government, and he has parted company
with the government from what appears
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to be a mutual satisfaction [for each to see
the other] go away. So he has a real disdain
As a child growing up in working-class
Lindale, who would you say was your own
for authority, given that, in his experience, moral anchor?
power always corrupts, and that those in …Family, community, church, all of that;
positions of power so often act for their own though still I floundered. I didn’t have any
venal means rather than for the good of real, strong exemplar to look to, but I’ve
those they should be [acting on behalf of ]. often thought that was good because I
So, he has a visceral, knee-jerk reaction to
anybody in a position of power or authority.
wasn’t overwhelmed by [anyone]. I didn’t
take on anyone else’s persona and replicate
That’s not to say he’s a rebel. He’s
certainly a thinking man. But he’s on the
it.
Then I went into the Army when I
side of the powerless, and he uses his ability, was 17, so there were other examples: my
skill and knowledge to help aid and support sergeants, my platoon sergeants, et al.
the powerless.
Did your parents happen to work at the
…Situationally speaking, given your old cotton mill?
own history with U.S. Special Ops, how
much of your experience is channeled via
My mother worked at
the mill as a weaver for a
Tanner?
Well, for [someone with my career history],
numbers of years. In fact, I
worked at the mill in high
to write action is like falling off a log. It’s a
very, very easy thing to do. And in No Man’s
school. Went to school,
worked second shift at the
Land there is a good deal of action for all
my action junkies, but it’s not mindless
mill my junior year into
my senior year. And my
action. He uses violence reluctantly and
with regret. In fact, something he is always
daddy had worked there
before the war, just before
working out with himself as a human is,
Why does it always seem that I wind up in
he was drafted in 1943.
The cotton mill was
these positions? very important to that
He has a spiritual guide that we find in
book number two (Lowcountry, scheduled
for release Dec. 7, 2010), and she’s a
community, as you know. I
mean, it was the economic
center. And my people,
Geechee woman, an aged woman who the Haneys—and even
lives on Daufuskie Island. She’s one of the my mother’s side of the
characters I use as a mirror into who this family—had all gravitated
man is. towards Rome in the time
of the First World War to
Is she a sort of moral [anchor] for Tanner? work in the cotton mills.
Yes, as one that’s helping validate— ...My grandparents on
calibrate—his moral compass. both sides met working
I was just reading through it again in those mills. And the
yesterday…and I read that passage where farmers in this region
Tanner is with her, and I just marveled at it. in that period—small
At first when I was writing it, I didn’t feel I farmers, sharecroppers—
was getting across to the reader what I was they would farm the
trying to convey—I often feel that way—and summer and raise cotton
as a writer you’re just saying, If I could just in the fall. Once the cotton
get 75 percent across of what I feel inside and was picked, they’d go off
what I’m trying to express on the page, I’m to work in the mill for the
doing good. winter.
Then there are those times when you’re
really up there, almost at a 100 percent, You mentioned your
and it’s almost like the gods of writing are father “before the war.”
coming through you. I’ll go back and read So you weren’t a first-
those [passages] and say, My God, who wrote generation soldier, then?
this? Where did that come from? Because I No, no, no. Folks around
got it across… here, this is always the first
draft. My father was in the Second World
War in New Guinea, his brothers were all
in…the Second World War, the closing
days of the war. His youngest brother was
in Korea, both of my grandfathers were in
the First World War. It’s “the thing” around
here.
…Memories from your service with [Delta
Force] ultimately became the springboard
for your writing career. Did that urge
begin to bubble up while you were serving
or after the fact?
I don’t know if I’ve ever had “the urge” to
be a writer. I’ve always been a storyteller,
but again that’s something cultural from
the years of the oral tale, something that’s
always been a big part of our heritage. You
know, the Scots-Irish, and coming from
a long line of illiterate people. And it was
entertainment as a boy growing up. Sit
around with the old folks around the fire,
even the older neighbors…would sit around
and just tell stories… So, I have a natural
ability from that.
…The Army taught me so much in
terms of travel and languages... In Special
Operations I went to the greatest language
school in the world, the Defense Language
Institute, and I read, write and speak
Spanish fluently at a native university
graduate level. Some of my favorite authors
are Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa,
who’s a Nobel laureate. And when you speak
and read another language, it opens another
world to you, and other cultures, other
people.
The big thing is: If you are a career
soldier, if you will show that you want it and
can take it, the Army will continually give
you opportunities and responsibilities. One
of those is formal military schooling, and
it teaches you how to be a good student—
which I wasn’t. I was a piss-poor student.
My parents only went through elementary

“...As a writer
you’re just saying,
If I could just
get 75 percent of
what I feel inside
and what I’m
trying to express
on the page, I’m
doing good.”

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school, so they didn’t know
how to [help] you form study
habits… But the Army said,
By God, up here we’re going
to teach you how to become a
student. And part of that too
is, as you become sergeant, the
sergeants are the trainers and
the teachers, so you go through
years of courses and cumulative
years of study on how to be a
trainer, how to be a teacher…

After you [retire from] the

military, what prompts you
to write Inside Delta Force,
your first New York Times
Bestseller?
I retired in 1990 right after
our little war in Panama, and
I stayed in Panama for almost
a year, hung up my shingle as
a Delta Force for hire. This is
long before Blackwater and the
Beltway Bandits. And I had not
even retired, I was on terminal
leave, and I had a contract
to Colombia to negotiate the
ransom and exchange of an oil
company executive who had
been kidnapped. He had been
held for about a year, and the
company was finally ready to
negotiate to recover him.
I did that in Colombia,
and for the next six or seven
years there was bodyguard
work, training for foreign
governments, government-
sponsored contracts. Some
were in Latin America. I had
the president of Telmex (Mexico’s leading ransom if he was kidnapped… the world who did that, and a lot of my
telephone company) as a client and I built Then I did a long contract overseas in work came from insurance companies. AIG
a bodyguard staff for him. He had risen to Algeria, and when I came back from that had the kidnapping policy on this [Telmex]
the top of a kidnap list, and his insurance [my wife] Dianna and I were together and executive. Same thing in Algeria: I wound
carrier said that if Telmex didn’t put credible we married. up working for a protection program for
protection on him, they wouldn’t pay the It’s peculiar how the universe will a pipeline construction project that went
shove you in across [the country], and when they first
“...I got a rejection letter from a direction, I
think. I was
started work they had their main campus
attacked by Algerian guerillas. The Algerian
[Turner Broadcasting], like very successful police guard was slaughtered, then the

all the rest of them, but in this

at what I was guerillas came in and hunted down the
doing; I was Westerners in the camp and executed them.

one it said...Oh, by the way, if

one of six or The insurance carrier on that one said to put
eight men in credible protection on it or we’re yanking

you see that we produce this,

we didn’t steal it from you.”

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it. So, being one of the three or four guys on
their list, I did that.
…It’s funny, each year I was still in high
demand, but each year…I was earning
exactly half of what I had the previous year,
and it was approaching zero. I had three
years in a row where it was just boom-
boom-boom, then I [began losing] contracts
to charlatans—known charlatans…
To pass the time, I wrote a story on our
raid into Iran, the hostage rescue attempt
back in 1980. Several people had asked me
about it, so I wrote the story of it. It was
about 40 pages, and any time someone
would ask about what had happened there,
I’d just hand them a copy… Then I started
having queries, you know, Hey, could you
send me a copy of that?
It was coming up on the 20th anniversary
of the [Iran hostage crisis] and I thought,
I’m gonna find a way to publish this. I
didn’t know how—maybe a magazine or
something—so I started sending it out. I
always got rejections, so I just kept sending
it out. We were living in Atlanta and I sent
it in a proposal letter to Turner Networks
thinking, Ol’ Ted Turner likes this kinda
stuff. Maybe, at that point, it could’ve been a
feature documentary or something like that.
And I got a rejection letter from them, like
all the rest of them, but in this one it said—
and this is almost exactly from the final
paragraph—Oh, by the way, if you see that
we produce this, we didn’t steal it from you.
I said, Sons-a-b—s are gonna steal it!
Now, what am I missing?, and I kept seeing
something about agents, how they only
accept submissions from registered agents.
Ok, that’s it: I need to find an agent.
So, I set out on my track to do that. I
won’t go into my screwy criteria I use, but
part of it had to do with…good addresses in
New York and L.A. I always sent things out
in packets of four, so I sent to two to L.A.,
two to New York, and wound up with my
current literary agent, Frank Wyman, who’d
had more bestsellers in the last 10 years than
anyone.
I had, without knowing exactly what
I was doing, written what was called a
query letter. I had also met the criteria
for proposals, which is the submission of
at least one sample chapter, et cetera. So,
we wound up with [Inside Delta Force] at
Random House, it became a bestseller in 14
or so different languages, and I was able to
turn that into the television show The Unit.
Onceupon a time...
Did Turner ever produce the rip-off they
alluded to in their “rejection” letter?
Nah, they didn’t do anything.
How did the idea for producing The Unit
come together, exactly?
I was fending off movie offers because I
wanted to do a television series, but I had
no idea how to go about it, so I was just kind
of slow walking on movie offers. But I was
still talking to some production companies.
Then, David Mamet called. He was working
on the movie Spartan with Val Kilmer and The customer was
he had just read my book. He called me and
said, Hey, from one writer to another: Love catered to.
your book. It’s great stuff. We’re doing this
movie, so would you come work on the movie
with me?
I said, As a what?
He said, Anything you want to.
So he overnighted me the script, I read
it and said, Wow, how is he getting this?
How does he comprehend this world? I think
David thought it better just to hire me than
to plagiarize straight out of my book.
Anyway, I had worked with [Mamet]
on script revisions; I worked as a technical
consultant on the film; worked with Val
Kilmer as a trainer and general technical/
military advisor on mannerisms, et cetera.
David is a big one for writing a scene right
as they’re shooting, so he’d stop and say, Ok,
Eric, what are we gonna say? What are we
gonna do? What’s the dialogue? And he’d sit
there with his little electric typewriter on an
upturned barrel and I’d dictate something
for the scene.
…As we were finishing the film, I was
having meetings in Hollywood. I’d go to
these companies and they’d say, Yeah, well
what would you do on a movie?
And I’d say, I don’t want to do a movie, I
want to do a television series.
They’d say, We don’t do television, we’re
the feature film department.
…Then, when we were on our last day or
two of Spartan, Dave and I were going to the
set one morning and he said, What are you
gonna do with your book?
I said, Dave, I wanna do a television
series but I don’t know how to go about it,
how to grab this thing. (continued on pg. 32)
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He called his agent and said, Hey, this is
my friend Eric. He wants to do a television
series. I’ve told you about him.
That was the first step. Then I had a
tutorial from this agent on how you get into
[the television] business, and the first lesson
was ‘you can’t get into television unless
you’re already into television,’ which is pretty
true. Then he said, You need a showrunner.
I said, Great! What’s a showrunner?
So he told me, and I said, Great! Where
do you find ’em?
He said, I have a guy in mind.
So what is a ‘showrunner’?
The showrunner runs the show. He’s the
commander of the operation. He’s always a
writer; he’s the senior writer. Anything I do
in my future, I will be my showrunner, I’ll be
the creator.
This is one. (Points to a large, white dry-
erase board on the far wall. Outlined are
the characters, working character names,
and basic descriptions of each for a new
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television series involving
the C.I.A.) I’m doing this
with Tribeca, Robert
DeNiro’s company. They
came to me with a concept,
so I have created the story,
the characters and the idea
for the pilot. (Stands up,
“...If you want to make
art, make art on your
own time; don’t expect
someone else to pay
for it. I want to make a
living, and you have to
know your audience.”
walks over to the board.)
So these are my characters,
the principal characters,
and we’ll be pitching this
in probably two to three
weeks…
So this project is still in its infant stages?
Oh gosh, yeah. Tribeca has a relationship
with one of the major networks, so we’ll
pitch it to that one first…
Which network is that?
CBS. They have the first look at anything
from Tribeca.
Obviously I don’t know what this series
is about, but I have always wondered:
As a writer/creator, do you think that
crafting a show for network TV hampers
[the show’s range] at all, given the stricter
FCC standards placed on networks? The
Unit, for example, was a show involving a
line of work that’s graphically violent by
nature, but there is only so much you can
show on TV…
Well, what is it that you want to [accomplish
with a show]?
I don’t have a show, so you tell me. What
is your goal?
My goal is to make a living. I would say if
you want to make art, make art on your own
time; don’t expect somebody else to pay for
it. I want to make a living, and you have to
know your audience. I do it with my novels;
I have an audience in mind.
On this [new] television series, if we can
get it on broadcast, you make three times
the money you make on cable. Saying f—
and s— and showing somebody’s a— isn’t
that important to me. And I’ll tell you, as
a writer, that’s lazy writing. You’re using
titillation in place of action and story.
Sometimes there’s a place for it. I have
another series that I’ve created that has
to be on cable because it’s very dark…and
I could never do it on network television
and do what I want to do with it. There is a
bit of profanity, slight nudity—but not for
the nudity’s sake, it’s necessary for that one
scene. And I can tell that story on cable, but
I could never tell it on broadcast network.
I can tell this story, though. (Points back
to the dry-erase board.) It’s drama. There’ll
be lighthearted portions of it. Because you
have to keep in mind who your audience is
that watches broadcast television…and you
provide a product for that audience.
Somebody that says, Oh, I’m limited!—
well, you’re limited in some fashion or
another by the format that you’re using, no
matter what.
…If forced to pigeonhole them, how
would you describe the typical audience
member/reader who’s read No Man’s
Land, the first Kennesaw Tanner book?
The one who’s going to stay with this series...
is not going to be a non-thinker. They’re not
just reading for comic book [entertainment].
Reading a novel is an investment in itself.
Reading is that; readers are that. They
invest themselves in it. They’re a little more
spiritual—not religious spiritual—about
things: the human spirit, how we view
ourselves, different layers of society and how
we act in society, how we treat one another
and also the rest of the world.
In my first [Tanner] book, I take him to
some very foreign characters and peoples,
and he lives with them and he’s very
comfortable with them. Part of the purpose
is to show my readers, the average American
reader, that these people are like you. You
can’t say that they are different, hence, “not
human,” and we’re seeing more and more
of that [mindset] in our country. Regardless
of language and religion, basically we’re all
about the same; we want the same things.
So, Tanner moves through those different
levels of society, cultures, races.
In fact, one of the things I’ve never done
is describe what Tanner looks like—and
purposefully. The closest I have come was
in book one—and this is purposeful—when
he’s having an interaction with a police
Savannah Morning News—Tanner is based
in Savannah—and the young lady, when I
told her that, rattled off the description she
had formed in her own mind.
Did it mirror your own at all, or do you
even have one?
I sort of do, but she rattled it off like da-
da-da-da… And that’s what I want, for the
audience to form their own opinions.
It’s sort of like, (Laughs) if you’re black,
what color is Jesus? Then you go to a white
Baptist church and he looks like a white
guy from around here, just with longer hair.
Whoever that reader is, I want them to find
that exemplar of this good man, this heroic
type, with whatever floats in their minds.
It’s like when I’m in Latin America and
I set up a meeting with someone I’ve never
met before, and they’ll say, What do you
look like? I’ll say, You know that picture of
a gringo that you have in your mind? That’s
me.
You have to know your audience, and
then you hope—you hope—they like it...
NOW OPEN
Is there something else out there you
haven’t achieved thus far, career-wise,
that you’d like to before you cash in your
chips?
This is the business that I want to be in. I
love this business. I love the creative aspect
as a writer, I love the production side of
it, the television work, the physical side of
it, working with the various departments,
set design/construction, stunts and special
effects coordination.
I really enjoy…the business side of it also,
and that’s where the real challenges are.
Dealing with the networks, the studios and
those places, even the non-creative people
who are the gatekeepers in those places.
Writers in the business always complain
about them and, for some, their complaints
are valid. For others, their complaints are
not valid, and you have to remember who’s
putting up the money to make this happen.
…My objective: I want to have another
hit television show. I want to do another hit
television series and keep it out there for a
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Yes, and so I don’t concentrate on [details
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T he other side
of having
institutions place
statuary, portraits or
plaques to honor a
person is what a person
might do to honor an
institution. Donations
and endowments are
nice, of course, always
welcomed. But is there
any greater salute
than to request that,
after your death, your
ashes be spread at a
place that’s dear to
your heart? Is there a
sweeter tribute to a place
that shaped your life?
Spreading his ashes was the request of
Jerry Montgomery of Greenwood, Miss.,
a camper and later a counselor in the
1960s and 1970s at Lookout Mountain
Camp for Boys. “I can’t place a value on
my experiences spending my summers
at Lookout ... they are invaluable,”
Montgomery wrote to the camp, which
draws boys from all over the Southeast.
Jerry passed away in March 2008. It’s not
hard to imagine that, perhaps, he heard the
camp bell toll 19 times at Vespers in his
memory, because he had heard the bell so
often in his youthful summers there. The
bell helps campers follow a schedule, teaches
young boys to inject order into their lives,
and peals itself into so many memories.
Monday through Saturday, the bell starts
for wakeup at 7:15; it rings a second time 30
minutes later for everyone to gather at the
“Stone Seats” (an outdoor amphitheater)
for announcements, inspiration and prayer
before breakfast.
“In 1928, a man had a vision, and he
acted upon it. The result of that vision has
impacted boys all the way into the next
century,” says Millard B. Morrison, Sr.,
owner and director of the camp. “That man
was my great-grandfather, and his vision
was Lookout Mountain Camp for Boys. He
said he wanted to help ‘provide the youth of
America with a foundation upon which to
grow.’
“My grandfather stated over 50 years ago
that ‘if you’re looking for a place to “park”
your boy for the summer with no concern
for his well-being, you’ve come to the wrong
place.’ My father has said all his life that ‘the
one thing Lookout Mountain Camp doesn’t
do is operate like a machine.’ All three of
these men were and are right, and they are
all saying the same thing. Lookout Mountain
Camp provides a clean, healthy environment
upon which a boy can grow his confidence,
wisdom, maturity and a strong belief in
himself and his abilities,” Morrison says.
A boy—a young man—might start to
find a career calling in several of LMC’s
numerous activities, as well as the skills
and associated lessons they bring: archery
and skeet shooting, hand-eye coordination.
Basketball, tennis, battle ball, softball,
volleyball: when to swat, when to swing
and when to pass to a teammate. Fitness
training, hiking: getting the lasting most out
of the body you were given to take care of.
(continued on pg. 40)
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But that is oversimplifying LMC. After
breakfast, for example, every camper goes
back to his cabin for cleanup and inspection.
Then the bell rings again at 9:15 for the first
activity. It rings again for the second activity
of the day, again for “free swim”, when
campers have the option of a 30-minute dip
in the Little River, then lunch and siesta,
third and fourth activities. At the 5:45
p.m. dinner bell, campers group into two
lines—the white line and the green line, the
camp colors—for the Pledge of Allegiance
and evening announcements, before eating.
Then there is free time again before various
activities in the gym, but not before The
Star Spangled Banner. Afterward, there is
the camp Alma Mater, Taps on a bugle, then
bedtime at 10 p.m.
“At Lookout Mountain
Camp, the bell is what makes
the world go ’round,” says
outdoor director Robert
Maples.
Vespers is a Sunday
night tradition, Maples
says. Campers arrive in
“dress whites” at dusk at
the Stone Seats via candle
light. A speaker touches
on inspirational topics. “At
the end of the service, all
lights are turned off, candles
extinguished, and we have
sentence prayers,” Maples says.
“Everyone is invited, but not
required, to join and basically
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on horseback a tract on the east fork
of Little River, just east of Mentone,
Ala. He had a dream to build a summer
camp for boys. He soon purchased the
site he desired on Lookout Mountain.
A lodge was built on the bluffs above
Little River, and the camp was born.
Following were 24 log cabins, a dining
hall, gym, rifle range, archery range,
barn and utility buildings most of
which are still in use today.
The camp is for any boy aged 7 to
15. Each camp session offers optional,
age-appropriate day trips and short
excursions around the Southeast.
“It’s not a privileged camp, but it’s
a privilege to go to our camp,” Maples
says. “You build relationships that will
last a lifetime.”
Morrison adds, “We do it in a
conscientious, nurturing environment
that has been time-tested. Our staff
is hand-picked with care, and we
offer a prayer... And when all prayers have provide a physical environment unmatched
been given the speaker says, ‘Dear Lord, anywhere else. Our camp program is
hear all our prayers,
said and unsaid.
Amen.’ ” “We do not just play games
A light is lit, and
the campers and
and go home... A boy’s time
staff leave for their
cabins to sleep
spent at Lookout Mountain
before the next day Camp will stay with him for
the rest of his life.”.”
begins.
The Lookout
Mountain Camp
for Boys opened in June 1928 under the designed with the camper’s benefit in mind.
guidance of Dr. Jacob Gorman, his son- We do not just play games and go home. At
in-law, Gray Morrison, and his wife, Edith LMC, campers thrive. We have operated the
Gorman Morrison. Dr. Gorman had ridden camp for more than 80 years and the results
are still the same. A boy’s time spent at
Lookout Mountain Camp will stay with him
for the rest of his life.”
Jerry Montgomery’s son, Will, asked if he
could have a private ceremony at LMC to
spread his father’s ashes. The camp said it
would be honored to do so, and at the next
Vespers, the bell rang in Jerry Montgomery’s
memory.
But why 19 times? Add up the numerals
in 1972, the year Jerry Montgomery won
the camp’s “Uncle Charlie” award for best
counselor. That sort of tribute comes from
a place that holds its memories dear to the
heart. VVV
For more information on the camp,
visit LookoutMountainCamp.com
or call 256.634.4758.
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 CENTS&SENSIBILITY
withJ.BRYANTSTEELE
A
re we, as a result of this recession,
going to evolve into another way
of thinking in terms of using our money?
The current way is relatively new, courtesy
of post-World War II prosperity. Saving
money was still a good idea, but borrowing
money to buy stuff, like cars and appliances,
became sexier.
Housing? Brand-new cookie-cutter
subdivisions, and the banks will give you a
mortgage.
Technological innovations? Just as every
teenager today has to have a cell phone, the
post-war teens had to have record players
and transistor radios. (For younger readers,
the transistor radio was like an iPod, except
that it was somewhat bigger and you had to
The “global economy is not
new. you could ask marco
polo or genghis khan, or any
roman emperor. it’s just that
the globe keeps expanding
while also getting smaller.
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Fudging
Thenumbers
What ATVs, artichokes
and opt-outs have
to do with America’s
economic forecast
listen to whatever was on the radio rather
than downloading your favorite tunes. But
if you were really good at manipulating that
now-primitive device, you could keep up
with the World Series during social studies
class.)
Western Europe and developing nations
across the planet, to varying degrees and
timelines, began to follow this model of
borrowing and spending. Debt, which once
could easily get you sent to prison, became
acceptable. Savings accounts: You had one,
but hot damn if you wouldn’t like to take
that cheerleader to the prom in a Mustang—
if Dad would just co-sign on the loan?
The attitude
shift was
underpinned
by a growing
safety net: jobs
with benefits,
not only for your
health, but for
your retirement.
And it was enabled by the sleekest of
enablers: advertising.
The model is not going away, but you
have to wonder what’s going to evolve. It
won’t start with small businesses (which,
with a good plan, are nimble), and it won’t
start here in America. But the European
Union has suggested—guess what?—that
consumers spend less. That means less
exporting for American businesses. Greece,
in its economic mire, has had riots over the
elimination of citizen benefits. Italy is not
far behind (without the riots, hopefully).
The phrase “global economy” has, in
the last several years, been used so often
that it numbs the mind. But consider this:
When sales of ATVs declined in America,
the Suzuki manufacturing plant in Floyd
County got by, for a couple of years, with
sales overseas. But the company also had to
endure warehousing costs near Savannah,
because outgoing ships, at that moment in
the global economy, couldn’t bear all that
the Suzuki plant and other manufacturers
were producing. The plant eventually had to
lay off some workers, but Suzuki will find a
way. ATVs aren’t going anywhere.
The “global economy” is not new. You
could ask Marco Polo or Genghis Khan, or
any Roman emperor. It’s just that the globe
keeps expanding while also getting smaller.
It spins faster. But new markets will never
cease.
BITSOFBIZ
A few evenings ago, I finally got around to
eating at Johnny’s New York Style Pizza,
still a relative newcomer at 233 Broad
Street in Rome, and the only reason that
is news is because there was a Johnny’s in
my former neighborhood in Atlanta that I
once frequented. Still,
I didn’t rush right over
when Johnny’s opened
...What’s not figured into
downtown. But at all the government data is
the initiation of other
downtown friends, we the number of people who
gathered there.
The joke about me at were once breadwinners
the Johnny’s in Atlanta
is that I would look over
now supplanting minimum
the menu and then order
the same thing every
wage as the brass ring.
time—two slices of tomato/artichoke pizza.
You can interpret my consistent choice two
ways: Unimaginative, or, I’ve tasted manna
and I want it again.
But I didn’t see tomato/artichoke on the
downtown menu here. I told the waiter
about the particular pizza that I loved in
Atlanta. The waiter said the kitchen could
put that together, no problem. Then the
four of us at the table started discussing
whether we wanted salads first. Yes, no, and
finally yes for some of us and no for some
of us. Then, we decided instead we’d share
a veggie pizza rather than order individual
slices, but we’d add a topping of artichokes
to accommodate me.
The waiter tore off his order stub,
crumpled it up with a laugh and started
over. He never lost his patience or his
pleasant attention to our decision switching,
and he efficiently gave us “a little time” so he
could go wait on other tables. Johnny’s Pizza
had me in Atlanta, long before they opened
on Broad Street. But the reunion was sweet.
It’s another downtown draw and at
least a few jobs for folks in this economy,
but joblessness is still an issue, one that is
becoming less comprehensible. Regional,
state and national data on unemployment
insurance claims versus job creation
fluctuate weekly, yet, overall, cannot be
described as encouraging. Despite job fairs
populated by numerous employers, most
of the opportunities there are low-wage or
solely based on commission, with little or
no benefits. And what’s not figured into
all the government data is the number of
people who were once breadwinners now
supplanting minimum wage as the brass
ring.
Onceupon a time...
That gets back to consumer spending
and what it means to the economic
model we’re under, which also leads to a
conundrum. Northwest Georgia counties
Food was fresher.
are becoming certified as “Work Ready” by
the state, a stamp that’s intended to attract
large employers. College enrollment is
up, especially in technical colleges. But at
the basic level, counties are facing budget
cuts, and no matter how you parse it or
explain it, it’s a contradiction. The current
state leadership seems to think a trained,
educated workforce will attract employers,
but tax increases won’t attract employers.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t cut
education funding and impress potential
employers.
On the other hand, local governments—
and the state—can find ways to attract
employers regardless of taxes. After all,
every state taxes businesses, but they
include built-in opt-outs. Seems like a big
“duh,” but that’s not what politicians run on.
Lawmakers also did not pass bond
funding for the proposed Tennis Center of
Georgia in the past session, but the support,
especially with the backing of Berry College
and the U.S. Tennis Association, makes the
complex seem at least likely—eventually.
Then, perhaps, Rome and Athens, the latter
already a collegiate tennis center, could find
a way to mutually benefit.
Oh, wait. That would require an
unclogged east-west transportation route.
Northern Arc, anyone? VVV
J. Bryant Steele is an award-
winning business and feature
writer published both locally 313 Broad Street
and internationally.
Rome, Ga.
Spring, 2010
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 HARBIN CLINIC’S
Take On Health OUR PHYSICIANS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
Vascular disease is among
the leading causes of death
in the United States. There
are generally no symptoms until a stroke
or aneurysm rupture occurs. Vascular
screenings are available to detect problems,
but millions of Americans
at risk for stroke or death
from vascular disorders
remain unaware of the
danger. In an effort to help
encourage the diagnosis of
this potential problem before
it occurs, John Kirkland,
M.D., Medical Director of the Harbin Clinic
Vascular Laboratory, fields your questions.
Why should I have a vascular screening?
Around 795,000 Americans will have
a stroke this year, and 135,000 will not
survive. One in 20 Americans over the
age of 50 has peripheral arterial disease
(PAD). PAD impairs circulation, leading to
a reduced ability to walk and, in some cases,
leg amputation.
What does a vascular screening include?
An ultrasound scan of the aorta is used to
identify aortic aneurysms. An ultrasound
scan of the carotid arteries is performed to
assess the risk for stroke. Blood pressure
measurements in the legs are performed to
identify PAD and the risk of heart disease.
I feel fine, so why should I be concerned
about these conditions?
All three conditions can remain symptom-
free for years. Over time, plaque builds and
the aortic wall continues to weaken. Your
risk of stroke or complications due to PAD
increase as the amount of plaque increases.
If we identify this early, we can modify
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Harbin Clinic answers your
questions regarding vascular
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What happens if my screening comes
back with one of these conditions having
been identified?
The earlier your doctor knows about the
presences of atherosclerotic disease or an
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of symptoms, PAD and carotid artery
disease can be managed medically. That
means modifying risk factors and repeating
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plaque slows or stops.
A small aortic aneurysm may require
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monitoring may be all that’s needed.
Will the vascular screening hurt or be
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All three exams performed are non-invasive,
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How long does it take, and how will I
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All three exams will take a total of about 15
to 20 minutes. The exam will be reviewed
by a Harbin Clinic board-certified vascular
surgeon. The report will be mailed to you
within two business days.
Why choose the Harbin Clinic Vascular
Laboratory to complete my screening?
The Harbin Clinic Vascular Laboratory
employs only registered vascular
technologists (RVT) to perform your
screening. The lab is also accredited by
the Intersocietal Commission for the
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In addition, your screening will be read by
one of Harbin Clinic’s five board-certified
vascular surgeons, who have a combined 75
years of vascular interpretation experience.
All of these designations speak to Harbin
Clinic’s commitment to quality patient care.
We are a part of the community and should
you ever need us, we will be there to take
care of you in the future.
Is this covered by my insurance?
Oftentimes it is not, and that’s why Harbin
offers special pricing for this screen.
Insurance carriers are beginning to see the
value in vascular screening, but most have
yet to act upon the mounting scientific
evidence that supports the need for early
detection.
Medicare does have an abdominal
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Medicare recipients. Unfortunately, it is
only for a limited timeframe after becoming
Medicare eligible. This means most
insurance carriers do not cover vascular
screenings for many at-risk people 50 or
older. People with a family history of heart
disease or PAD are especially at risk, and
those with risk factors even more so. VVV
John Kirkland, M.D., is the medical director of the Harbin Clinic
Vascular Laboratory. Staff members include Mike Rogers, M.D.,
Jonathan Molnar, M.D., Trent Prault, M.D., Michael Amendola,
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