Finding New Purpose in Creating Honor
This website was developed as a generic alternative based on the discovery of a rich illustrious history and the legal standing of colonels in Kentucky and America. In defending the lawsuit we discovered a rich and viable history behind the ideal and birth of the "Colonel" in the United States, a story which has never been told of thousands of figures both inside and outside of Kentucky dating back to 1651. The history of a timeline and story which can only be credited to Kentucky colonels, but also their link to thousands of colonels from Colonial America gives great posterity to our endeavor here with the creation of this website as an authoritative resource.
We also discovered in our research that the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels intentionally manipulated and obscured history to create a mythical and fictitious account which is best called their own, based on a propagandist version of events that has cheated many prominent figures of their own roles in history as Kentucky colonels. This faulty account of pseudohistory has become the official account for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a number of books use this propagandized version and it has even influenced works prepared by the Kentucky Historical Society.
As a result of identifying this manipulated history readers should be aware that this website is being developed excluding information provided by the Honorable Order and is based mostly on references prior to their existence, unless relative to them specifically. There are actually several versions that they have promoted, all of them are blasphemous to academic researchers and historians despite the organization declaring itself as a historical custodian.
If you are curious about the lawsuit itself, we won when the case was dismissed, based on it presenting historical information that is of public record. It all began with the Honorable Order coveting secrets from their members, creating subjective manipulative control over their donors and their envy for our organization creating a potentially successful fraternal objective which they did not control. Kentucky Colonels International was sued in US Federal Court by the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels claiming the term "Kentucky Colonels" as their exclusive trademark for the commercial marketing of a clothing line, memorabilia, prepared food, cigars and services they provide using the term as a generic, descriptive, arbitrary, distinctive and suggestive trademarks and trade name of their organization without regard to other organizations that already existed to dominate and monopolize on it. In 2021 after settling the case with us, they trademarked bourbon using their mark and stopped the "Old Kentucky Colonel" brand from returning to the market.