I can feel the bile rise up in my throat as I sit down to write this column. A healthy society, a just society, or a sane society would have named medals of honor by now after the men I bring before you, instead of condemning them to financial uncertainty and career ruin.

But here we are, as Gandalf once said, still trading reason for madness on the most pathetic of scales. Nearly three and a half years after Covidstan came crashing down on our liberty and, later on in the form of the now-infamous jab mandates, infected our very hearts and other vital organs and bodily functions with a growing list of dysfunction and disease.

All Dr. Samuel Sigoloff and Lt. Mark C. Bashaw did is try to save people from that fate per the dictates of their consciences and the once-obvious demands of the Hippocratic Oath, along with many of the other heroes featured by Daniel Horowitz and me in our book “Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again.”

Sigoloff is a family medicine physician and holds the rank of major in the U.S. Army, currently stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. He was the medical director of the Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Clinic before he was suspended in September 2021 for writing COVID "vaccine" exemptions for patients upon their request.

Backed with information from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database that showed significant safety risks and harm in relation to the COVID “vaccine," as well as the concurring opinions of three other Army officers, Sigoloff turned whistleblower and initiated a lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense in order to deliver justice to those who signed up to serve their country as soldiers – not lab rats.

Similarly driven to whistleblower status, Lt. Bashaw served as a public health officer and company commander at the Army Public Health Center from January 2020 to June 2023. In November 2021, he refused to participate in further mandates as he forwarded information to his chain of command and members of Congress regarding the failure of interventions such as masks, tests, and injections, along with his objections to propagandized risk communication strategies, psychological operations, discrimination, and unlawful orders that were weaponized against both service members and the public at large. That earned Bashaw a court martial after 17.5 years of active duty for “unacceptable conduct” and a forfeiture of his retirement benefits.

These men both took an oath with the understanding that they would go as far as dying for their country in order to fulfill it. And now the government of that same country has told them to skip straight to the part about dropping dead, because they wouldn’t sell their souls to the Hydra-like magical power of vaccines.

Since that is a coup the majority of people still refuse to wake up to, those of us with open eyes and firmness of conviction are left to provide Sigoloff and Bashaw with the barest infusions of hope and honor as best we can.

To that end, I ask you to consider going to www.FourthReichbook.com to purchase a special hardcover edition of “Rise of the Fourth Reich” autographed by Daniel Horowitz and me, with the full profit from each sale being donated in its entirety to Sigoloff and Bashaw. Neither Daniel nor I will receive a penny from this limited, commemorative run. That’s the least we could do for our real heroes. Let us not just reward Sam and Mark for their sacrifice, but let them know they have not been forgotten.