Biography Richard Green "Patriotlad" Contact Information: WebSite http://www.amendment-13.org/ PatriotLad's articles - RumorMillNews Email PatriotLad TONA Committee Email Scholar of the Constitution Writer, editor and researcher, the political columnist best known as "Patriotlad," on Rumor Mill News began his career in the media as a reporter and News Director for KLOL - FM radio in Houston, Texas. Richard C. Green was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1949. His maternal ancestors have roots in the southwestern counties of Virginia, and he is a distaff member of the Massie, Bryant and Phillips families. By his mother, Laura A. Bryant, he is a direct descendant of Major Thomas Massie, who founded and recruited the Fourth Virginia Militia at the time of the Revolutionary War. The Fourth Virginia served with General Thomas Nelson and George Washington. The Major and his brothers helped pioneer and explore the Ohio Territory and founded several towns there. Thomas Massie also had a son named Thomas, who was one of the first graduates of the Philadelphia Medical College. Like the Major's grandson, Patrick Cabell Massie, Class of 1850, "Patriotlad" attended Yale College in the City of New Haven, where he took a degree in American Studies. Mr. Green was raised in the City of Houston and Galveston County in Texas, and his father -- a newspaper reporter and editor in Chicago for many years -- was part of the original management team hired to create NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. During his formative years, Green attended high school with the sons and daughters of many of the original astronauts. He was also the first graduate of Clear Creek High School to be admitted to Yale. Working in radio news and production in the 1970s, Mr. Green then moved into commercial television production, doing script writing and editorial review; later, he was recruited as the Managing Editor of Houston's first monthly entertainment & music newspaper -- Longplayer. As the second member of the paper's management team, he had his own column and also conducted interviews of many leading music personalities. Branching out into book reviews and editorial opinion ( op/ed ), Mr. Green has been published in the Daily Freeman of Kingston, New York, the oldest newspaper in the Hudson Valley; and in the Connecticut Post, the New Haven Register and the New York Post. Richard Green is also an authority on weddings and matrimonial ettiquette, the history and development of college football, and the science-fiction television series of Gene Roddenberry. Along with Alan and Suzanne Nevling, Brian March, and Robert "Barefoot" Hardison, Richard C. Green is a founding member of the TONA Research Committee. This ad hoc group was formed to collect, collate and confirm the research begun by Tom Dunn and David Dodge, who rediscovered the "missing" or original Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Green has been interviewed numerous times on the subject of the TONA or Titles of Nobility Amendment.