Lauren Price, YN1, US Navy (Retired), is the founder of “Veteran Warriors,” a national veterans’ advocacy group, and she has led that organization since its creation in 2009.  She has testified before Congress on veteran issues. 

Achievements:

• Graduated from Omega Institute, (Cinnaminson, NJ) with Paralegal Certification 1987
• Graduated from Saint Leo University, B.S. Criminal Justice, Minor in Psychology
• Eighteen years of experience in the legal profession
• Enlisted in the U.S. Navy January 3, 2005.  Served at a Shore Command until deployment to Iraq, ultimately returning to Shore duty upon her return.
• Served as a Convoy Driver and Public Affairs Officer for a year in Baghdad, Iraq – February 2007 – March 2008
• Served as Intel and Logistics Lead Petty Officer at Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Central Command
• Awards: Army Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement, Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal –(with star), Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Naval Reserve Meritorious Service, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Navy Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Driver Badge
• Medically retired from the U.S. Navy January 2015
• Married to James Price, Senior Chief, USN, (Ret.), five (5) adult sons, (3 veterans – 1 Air Force, 2 Army and 1 active duty Navy). Resides in Florida since 2004
• Community Service:
• Guardian Ad Litem, Sixth Judicial District, October 2004 – October 2011.
• Pro Bono Child Support Assistance – 1987 – Present

'The Lost Beach Boy'

D A V I D    M A R K S

One of the founding members of

T   H   E   

B   E   A   C   H     B   O   Y   S

E X C L U S I V E 

David Lee Marks is best known for his work as a member of The Beach Boys. Growing up across the street from the Wilson family, Marks spent his formative years singing and playing with Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. 

At age 10, David received his first guitar for Christmas; he and Carl began studying with John Maus (later John Walker of the Walker Brothers) and developing their own electric guitar style, which caught the attention of Carl’s oldest brother, budding composer Brian. David and Carl’s rock ‘n’ roll guitar sound blended with Brian’s complex harmonies to help create the signature sound of the Beach Boys.

​Thirteen-year-old Marks officially joined The Beach Boys in February 1962 and became one of the five signatories on the band’s recording contract with Capitol Records. He remained a member through October 1963, performing in over 100 concerts across the United States, appearing on national television, and playing rhythm guitar and singing on the band’s first four albums, and on hits like “Surfin’ Safari,” “409,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “Shut Down,” “Surfer Girl,” “In My Room,” and “Be True to Your School.” While David's time in the band may be considered short, there's no denying the impact of the early years of the Beach Boys on their enduring and iconic legacy. 

​Leaving the Beach Boys gave David the freedom to focus on his own songwriting with a new band, David Marks & The Marksmen. One of the first bands to sign to Herb Alpert’s A&M Records, The Marksmen packed concert venues up and down the state of California but ultimately disbanded in 1965 after a release on the Warner Brother's label. 

​Marks went on to record session-work for Murry Wilson's Sunrays. He also played with Casey Kasem’s Band Without a Name, cult-classic psychedelic-pop bands The Moon and Colours, Delaney & Bonnie, and Warren Zevon. By age 21, he had been signed to five major record labels and had grown disillusioned with the Los Angeles music scene. In 1969, he relocated to Boston, where he studied jazz and classical guitar as a private student at the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. David went on to earn a reputation as a solid session guitarist without ever capitalizing on his previous association with the Beach Boys.

Through it all, however, he remained friends and stayed in contact with members of the Beach Boys, even appearing as a special guest from time to time. David rejoined the band in as a full-time member in 1997, when Carl Wilson, fighting cancer, was unable to continue touring with the group. Marks left the band for a second time in 1999 after being diagnosed with hepatitis C. Since his diagnosis, he has become a leader in the hepatitis C community, often appearing in the media to raise awareness of the disease.

​In 2007, David co-wrote his autobiography, The Lost Beach Boy, with Beach Boys historian Jon Stebbins. The book is a frank account of his career with and without the Beach Boys, his health problems, his musical development, and his recovery and acceptance within the Beach Boys community.

​The Beach Boys celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2012 when David Marks joined Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston on a 73-date World Tour. The highly anticipated reunion kicked-off at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards where they performed two classic hits: Surfer Girl (with Foster the People) and Good Vibrations (with Maroon 5). Their studio efforts led to the release of That’s Why God Made The Radio on Capitol Record, marking the first Beach Boys album of new material since 1992; for their efforts, the album broke in at Number #2 on the Billboard charts. The band’s subsequent world tour took America's Band on 73 shows on four continents and included appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, the Jools Holland Show, SMAP, and the Today Show Australia. The also sang the National Anthem on opening day of Dodger's Stadium, which was also marking its 50th season.  

Post reunion, David and Al Jardine joined Brian Wilson for a short US Summer Tour, followed that fall with a subsequent North American tour which included Jeff Beck. The collaboration was voted the #3 tour of 2013 and landed Wilson, Jardine, Marks & Beck another slot on the Jimmy Fallon Show.  David Marks also joined an illustrious group of artist who guested on Brian Wilson’s 2015 solo release, No Pier Pressure – his guitar can be heard on the album’s single, The Right Time, which charted #28 on the Billboard charts and #1 on BBC Radio Two, and David Marks toured as a part time member of Mike Love's Beach Boys from 2014 - 2016 and continues to perform with the Surf City All Stars and Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean.  David's also returned to his roots as a session guitarist, playing on several albums by artists such as the Smithereens, the Surf City All Stars, Mod Hippie, Jez Graham, and Miami Dan.

​On his own, Marks has also released two studio albums in the last five years: David Marks & Friends: Live on the Sunset Strip (with guests artists Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford of the Honeys and John Walker of the Walker Brothers) and Back in the Garage featuring Los A-Phonics, from Valencia, Spain, with whom he toured Spain in 2016. 

​For more information about David Marks and the Beach Boys

https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarksOfficial

https://www.thebeachboys.com/

Purchase David’s book The Lost Beach Boy: The True Story of David Marks one of the founding members of the Beach Boys at amazon.com

Adam Wunische specializes in foreign affairs and military issues related to Afghanistan and the Middle East. He is a researcher covering Afghanistan and Pakistan with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. 



Wunische is also a PhD candidate at Boston College and an instructor at the George Washington University teaching classes on international security and military effectiveness. 



Adam served in the United States Army and completed two deployments to Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009. 

QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT 

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is an action-oriented think tank that will lay the foundation for a new foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military restraint. The current moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring together like-minded progressives and conservatives and set US foreign policy on a sensible and humane footing. Our country’s current circumstances demand it. 

Moreover, much of the foreign policy community in Washington has succumbed to intellectual lethargy and dysfunction. It suppresses or avoids serious debate and fails to hold policymakers and commentators accountable for disastrous policies. It has forfeited the confidence of the American public. The result is a foreign policy that undermines American interests and tramples on American values while sacrificing the stores of influence that the United States had earned. 

Nancy L. Hopkins is a "researcher of reality", meaning the truth. It started with the Assassination of President Kennedy when she was fifteen. In searching for secrets, Nancy joined the U.S. Army and went on to study Electronic Warfare. Because of a university background in the Soviet Union, Nancy worked in the highest echelons of the U.S. Intelligence Organization of the 1970's.That experience uncovered many secrets that fueled research culminating in the nonfiction book THE JOHN KENNEDY - JESUS CHRIST CONNECTION.

 As Nancy had been informed, she would never be published in the U.S. It was not until the advent of the Internet that the book was made available to others. In 2010 someone hacked the Internet Service Provider and took the book down.  That pissed Nancy off and she countered with self-publishing a novel based on fact THE 9/11 CRUSADE. This book takes problems with the official version of events and tells a more likely scenario through fictional characters who know the secrets. That followed with the nonfiction COSMIC REALITY, which is two books under one cover. The first book is THE JOHN KENNEDY - JESUS CHRIST CONNECTION and the second DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE.

 During writing of DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Nancy was led to conclude that for humanity to survive we had to become subservient to the Creator God of this biosphere we call Earth. Nancy calls this Creator God Gaia, believing the ancient word for “Mother Earth” is an energetic power word. That realization of the need to believe in Gaia led to commitment. Six months later Gaia countered with the gift of Shungite. It also led to a new mission to “get Shungite to the masses”.For fifty years Nancy uncovered one awful secret after another. She wrote about it and tried to tell others. But deaf ears and blind eyes were mostly the result. And then those who were enlightened came together in Face Book groups.

 One of those groups is the ODD Group and they have a show on Wolf Spirit Radio. Nancy is the host once a month and the discussions delve into subjects covered in COSMIC REALITY, which equates to almost anything that is solution-based for identified problems.What is unique about Nancy is her technical background in Electronic Warfare, which led to a scientific understanding of energy as the basis of reality. “Matter is energy in relationship to itself”, and  is the pillar upon which Quantum Physics is built...and is also one of the most critical secrets kept from humanity.

1. Reality is what we think it is. 
2. Majority Rules. 
3. Those in power keep everyone else from knowing Rules 1 and 2 of Cosmic Reality

Nancy weaves her scientific and metaphysical understanding of the Energy Universe into far ranging subjects that have the goal of empowering individuals to gain control of Reality. And Nancy spends a lot of talk on the magical mineral and gift from Gaia called Shungite.Shungite’s ability to hijack the mind-screwing, physical body destroying Electro-Magnetic/WiFi system controlling present reality, is just too sweet a solution.   When Shungite is introduced damaging EM/WiFi fields are changed to healing and enlightening signals. This is an undisputed scientific observation.But Nancy takes it further.

She has realized that Shungite’s proven healing properties, beyond protection from harmful radiation, is intensified by energy emitted by those believing Shungite is Gaia’s ultimate weapon to regain control over the planet.   The more people believe in Shungite the stronger it becomes and, in turn, the stronger Gaia becomes.So, if you do not want to hear scientifically based information on why there is a Creator God and why Shungite can be a magical weapon you should NOT listen to the ODD Collective Radio Show - Cosmic Reality (3rd Sunday every month at 1-3 PST / 4-6 EST).

If you feel comfortable thinking about magic being just energy manipulation and that energy manipulation will empower you, this may be a show to your liking.

The website provides information on many topics and you can find Face Book Group links to take you farther down the rabbit hole and illuminate the path to escaping this “Mad Hatter” kind of reality we find ourselves.