This is ridiculous. My father and all my uncles of his generation served in some fashion in WWII - my father in the South Pacific with the Navy, my uncle Frank in North Africa with the Army Air Corps, uncle Doug somewhere in the Army (don't know where) and my uncle Carroll stateside with the Navy. My father-in-law spent the entire war stateside, training Air Corps pilots in Texas. Apparently, Kerry thinks stateside service isn't worthy of respect. That really, really offends me.