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Your article on Boorda focused on the medals he wore and the controversy over whether he had the right to wear the "V (for valor) pin." The V device signifies heroism, gallantry and courage. There can be no confusion about whether it should be worn because the criteria are stated in the orders for the award. Retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's statement, "I certainly would have told him to wear it," is inappropriate. It is not left up to the individual to choose what devices should be worn as awards and decorations. That is why the orders state exactly what...
Also awarded Master of Arts degrees for military valor were William D. Cleary, who spent three years at Harvard during the war as head of the school for military chaplains, and John L. O'Brien, a lawyer who served as an adviser to the War Production Board...
...strange mess: Everyone's worst fear (being found out) enacted in a flash tragedy. Why did he wear two V-for-valor pins? Two seems to be piling it on a bit thick. Did the first false-macho decoration demand a twin, a second iteration, to make it convincing...
...sacrifices made in an ill-conceived war by the 57,600 Americans who died in it and the hundreds of thousands more who left arms and legs and sometimes pieces of their sanity in Vietnam. It is self-evident that no one who had not earned the decorations for valor in battle should have worn them, least of all the Navy's top officer...
...poet laureate of England (Tennyson, say, in the days when the post and poetry mattered) had been found guilty of plagiarism, it would be an interesting cultural scandal. To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage...