https://www.richmerritt.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/4eeff557-ed55-44b8-bae9-cd6656cbdff8/image3+%281%29.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/27cf921a-ea24-4432-88f9-b637d695a904/Cover-Trials+Medium.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/40fc81e4-7f1d-4b11-a07e-c5b1f950c251/Cover-Secrets+Medium.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/6c8c31b1-7236-4314-95c6-e9275679fad4/Cover-Spiritual+Medium.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/0ccb7215-a3d5-4772-b808-bf60fb2a7cdd/mock-00988-968c6.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/8adc718a-d457-4156-9967-7f33d1d0ef81/SGMP_FINAL_CVR_small.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/e10a5829-7a95-4f13-af91-4dc4105c89f0/Spiritual_Probation_Cover.jpg https://www.richmerritt.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/f981158f-bd9b-4429-b736-df6b1d6837f4/16-Sanchez+%282%29.jpg Photos Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) of Orange County was one of the VIPs I met during my time as General McCorkle's aide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/431d8e6c-99c6-43d9-b94c-78d342519289/NY+Times+Cover.jpg Photos Cover of the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, June 28, 1998. (Photographed by Matt Mahurin for the New York Times Magazine. Used with permission by the New York Times Magazine.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/7886dfa9-95e1-468f-8b91-e4f7c1f202a1/21-AIDS+Walk+Protesters.jpg Photos With my friend and fellow gay men's chorus member, Ty Rose, at the Orange County 2003 California AIDS Walk. Most of the walkers were heterosexual and seemed shocked that this level of homophobia still existed in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/1b53ba2b-7434-4816-bbab-75f4fb49bb26/13-Promotion+%282%29.jpg Photos June 1, 1995: Promotion to captain. I had made four of my eight porn videos at this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/b34a28bb-efab-47a8-b5fa-ebfa3291cab4/12-Oman.jpg Photos With my stinger missile platoon on a training mission in the Middle East nation of Oman in September 1994. Hostilities erupted with Iraq on October 7, 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/4cb0c632-0fdb-4d16-8101-60d849b6809b/20-Feinstein.jpg Photos In the Washington, DC, office of Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) in June 2002, after a lunch in the senate dining room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/f7345518-2fc3-4e64-a168-fa882da9499a/16-Award.jpg Photos From July 1996 through May 1997, I was the personal aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the Third Marine Aircraft Wing. At the end of my tour, he presented me with the Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal. His handwritten note on the photograph states, "Thank you my friend for all of your hard work over the last year. You are a superb Marine and a great American. Semper Fi, Fred McCorkle, 'Assassin,' MajGen." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/16a1c549-c8a8-4407-ac88-9be8e5232ac1/14-Bierman+letter.jpg Photos Melanie talked me into attending our ten-year Bob Jones Academy reunion. The BJU alumni director, Bud Bierman, a former family friend, halted those plans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/c84820fa-8a93-4581-92a4-5e9750d849aa/15-Blues.jpg Photos In the Marine Corps officers' blue dress uniform in 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/02b032eb-2820-4803-9ba9-9bce86a8fbbe/15-Brandon+Ocean.jpg Photos On the pier in Oceanside, California, with my condo in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/89519799-7b79-446e-b1de-c3ca4c03f94f/12-Africa.jpg Photos In Mombasa, Kenya, while deployed on board the USS Rushmore with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in August 1994. We assisted with the evacuation of United Nations personnel from Somalia following the Black Hawk Down incident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/2e1c0e59-1af5-4561-aa87-409ce549510f/9-Radioman.jpg Photos With my radioman on a training mission to the Philippines in December 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/4fce659a-52a4-44cd-8f9f-28b34e17483f/6-Salute.jpg Photos May 1990: Rendering my friend Second Lieutenant Gary Fullerton his first salute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/ba9d658f-c8ea-488e-b25f-f8c562906a1d/6-Platoon.jpg Photos Going directly from Bob Jones University to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, was a culture shock, but the discipline I had learned during my years at Bob Jones enabled me to excel in the Marines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/403c5951-e338-4ded-a001-d26adbe616ff/13-Cliffs.jpg Photos One of a series of "vanity shots" I had taken in May 1995, coinciding with my porn career. (Photograph taken by Steven Zeeland and used with permission.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/4b2ca93d-7cda-4ad0-9a95-fde61242c2b3/6-BJIII+letter.jpg Photos This personal letter from Dr. Bob Jones III is a response to my request for a recommendation to Marine officer candidate school. In my request, I had stated that a relative had been impressed with BJU's management of the strip mall it had recently purchased. Dr. Jones read this letter aloud in chapel. In less than nine months, I would be expelled from BJU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/f8a25e79-e4ef-4612-bff3-15f9531b52fb/3-Cub+Scout.jpg Photos Third grade cub scout at bob Jones Elementary School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/1e3a7852-155c-4919-b32c-872ebec99df7/2-Baby+Jimmy.jpg Photos October 1970: My earliest memory is of the first time I saw my baby brother, Jimmy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/c0eebedd-e586-489b-956a-5cad13337f7d/12-Camel.jpg Photos Spending my twenty-seventh birthday with Omani camels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/06b1e921-9515-43b6-a01d-48aad5b3b4b0/1-Cemetery.jpg Photos This photograph was taken by Matt Mahurin in 1998 for the New York Times Magazine. Even though it was not used as part of the article, Matt was kind enough to mail it to me. Little did I know that six years later it would become so painfully relevant. (Photographed by Matt Mahurin for the New York Times Magazine. Used with permission.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/d0d1a392-3996-44aa-b726-e273e1180d0d/5-Televangelist.jpg Photos Senior class president, Bob Jones Academy, class of 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/05b7bd58-4462-478e-8da6-fdc1bb48bd43/1-Threesome.jpg Photos Photograph used as part of the New York Times article. I had mistakenly assumed this image would be used on the cover. (Photographed by Matt Mahurin for the New York Times Magazine. Used with permission.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c563917b150d22c704f485/405bbddd-f31c-4ae2-befa-55d55932adad/1-Advocate+Cover.jpg Photos Cover of the February 16, 1999 issue of The Advocate, containing the story exposing my porn past. (Photograph property of Liberation Publications, Inc. 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