As I said, "at first glance" I thought this was a bad idea, however, I dont think it was demeaning as you and Bud are suggesting when you consider that uniformed vets were also wearing the band-aids.

So who said there are no 'uniformed vets' with mean spirits and a horrible sense of humor? Fortunately, there are many more who do not find this kind of humor acceptable.

So which side are you on? Do you think it was in poor taste or not?

So who said there are no 'uniformed vets' with mean spirits and a horrible sense of humor? Fortunately, there are many more who do not find this kind of humor acceptable.

Ok Dori....start naming all the vets that thought this was so unacceptable....if you can.

.. am not a registry, just a person with friends who have friends.

If you do not believe there are vets who are decent people, visit any of the many vets for peace sites...

That is shameless and deceitful spin of my post, not to mention an insult to the very group of people you CLAIM to be supporting. These vets were highlighting the dishonor that Kerry brought to himself through fraudulently misrepresenting the events related to 2 purple hearts, and it seems pretty insulting to them for you to label that effort by them as indecent and/or dishonorable.

...but Kerry did not fraudulently misrepresent his time in 'Nam.

...a normal tour of duty in Vietnam was at least one year for all personnel. Many sailors, like Tom Wright (who would later object to operating with Kerry in Vietnam) and Steven Gardner (the gunner’s mate who sat behind and above Kerry for most of his Vietnam stay and came to regard him as incompetent and dishonest), stayed for longer periods either because of the special needs of the Navy or because they had volunteered to do so. With very few exceptions in the history of Swift Boats in Vietnam, everyone served a one year tour unless he was seriously wounded. One exception was John Kerry, who requested to leave Vietnam after four months, citing an obscure regulation that permitted release of personnel with three Purple Hearts. John Kerry is also the only known Swiftee who received the Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound.

None of Kerry’s Purple Hearts were for serious injuries. They were concededly minor scratches at best, resulting in no lost duty time. Each Purple Heart decoration is very controversial, with considerable evidence (and in two of the cases, with incontrovertible and conclusive evidence) that the minor injuries were caused by Kerry’s own hand and were not the result of hostile fire of any kind. They are a subject of ridicule within our unit. “I did get cut a few times, but I forgot to recommend myself for a Purple Heart. Sorry about that,” wrote John Howland, a boat commander with call sign “Gremlin.”1

“I was there the entire time Kerry was and witnessed two of his war ‘wounds.’ I was also present during the action [in which] he received his Bronze Star. I know what a fraud he is. How can I help?” wrote Van Odell, a gunner from Kerry’s unit in An Thoi.2 Commander John Kipp, USN (retired), of Coastal Division 13 also volunteered, “If there is anything I can do to unmask this charlatan, please let me know. He brings disgrace to all who served.”

After Kerry’s M-16 jammed, Kerry picked up an M-79 grenade launcher and fired a grenade too close, causing a tiny piece of shrapnel (one to two centimeters) to barely stick in his arm. Schachte berated Kerry for almost putting someone’s eye out. There was no hostile fire of any kind, nor did Kerry on the way back mention to PCF OinC Mike Voss, who commanded the PCF that had towed the skimmer, that he was wounded. There was no report of any hostile fire that day (as would be required), nor do the records at Cam Ranh Bay reveal any such hostile fire. No other records reflect any hostile fire. There is also no casualty report, as would have been required had there actually been a casualty.

The following morning Kerry appeared at the office of Coastal Division 14 Commander Grant Hibbard and applied for the Purple Heart. Hibbard, who had learned from Schachte of the absence of hostile fire and self-infliction of the “wound” by Kerry himself, looked down at the tiny scratch (which he said was smaller than a rose thorn prick) and turned down the award since there was no hostile fire.13

Q: How did Kerry get a Purple Heart from the incident then?
GH: I don’t know....I know I didn’t recommend him for a Purple Heart. Kerry probably wrote up the paperwork and recommended himself, that’s all I can figure out. If it ever came across my desk, I don’t have any recollection of it. Kerry didn’t get my signature. I said “no way” and told him to get out of my office.14

As part of Eagle Publishing, Regnery has become a hit machine, with a hugely disproportionate number of national bestsellers, including the sensational number one New York Times bestsellers Unlimited Access by former FBI Agent Gary Aldrich, Murder in Brentwood by Mark Fuhrman, Bias by Bernard Goldberg, and Unfit for Command by John O’Neill and Jerome Corsi.

Other New York Times bestsellers include: Hell to Pay and Final Days, both by Barbara Olson, the feisty legal pundit who was killed, tragically, in the September 11 terrorist attacks; Kenneth Timmerman’s unflattering biography of Jesse Jackson, Shakedown; Pat Buchanan’s A Republic, Not an Empire; Ted Nugent’s God, Guns & Rock ‘n’ Roll; titles by Washington Times reporters Bill Gertz, Rowan Scarborough, and Bill Sammon; not to mention books by David Limbaugh, Dinesh D’Souza, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Mona Charen, G. Gordon Liddy, Michelle Malkin, Speaker Denny Hastert, Rich Lowry, Oliver North, and Newt Gingrich.

White Supremacists
Reclusive publishing heir to start all-white dating service

William Regnery II, an heir to the Regnery publishing fortune who's a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage."

In an appeal to potential investors titled "Population is Destiny," the famously reclusive Regnery wrote this March that the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure "the survival of our race," which "depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting."

Regnery, who says he's long been concerned with a "tendency to bachelorhood" among white men, told the potential investors that his latest effort to save the white race would not stop with match-making.

The dating service, he says, will be only the "first arrow in a business quiver" providing "services and products to whites."

Promoting white nationalism is nothing new for Regnery — or his family. His grandfather, William I, signed incorporation papers for the America First Committee, an organization that opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II. His father, Henry, created Regnery Publishing, one of the major purveyors of books by right-wing attack dogs like Anne Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy.

William II has made his mark as a major fundraiser in radical right circles as the founder of the Charles Martel Society in 2001. The society publishes The Occidental Quarterly, an academic-looking journal filled with articles by white-supremacist luminaries such as Sam Francis, editor for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens and Wayne Lutton of the hate group The Social Contract Press.

The society is putting together conferences, summer schools and a speaker's bureau — all designed to push Regnery's view that the white race is veering toward extinction.

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Fraudulent Bulk Orders

Apparently Regnery Publishing is in the habit of creating "buzz" for its books by having false bulk orders placed by phone at bookstores, which results in the books inclusion on "best seller" lists.

In an article in Publishers Weekly(8/24/2004), Jim Milliot and Kevin Howell report that independent booksellers (and some chains) are getting fradulent bulk orders over the phone for "Unfit for Command" and other right-wing titles. Unfortunately for the booksellers, the names are fake, the phone numbers disconnected. In a creative version of the scam, a caller gave the name of an employee at a different book store, along with that book store's phone number.

The scammers target small independent booksellers, because most chains have policies in place to detect and deter such fraud.

It is unclear whether this is a marketing strategy by Regnery itself, or a right -wing grass roots effort. Some bloggers (JuliusBlog, available_light) imply that this is business as usual at Regnery.

Even if everything written in Unfit for Command was true, there's nothing in that book that could possibly compare to the lies told by the current POTUS about a myriad of topics, including his own "military service" ...everyday of each year he's in residence at the White House.