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BetacommandBot23:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Last serving MoH recipient?
According to a source I read, he was the last Medal of Honor recipient to serve with the Armed Forces after earning the Medal of Honor. Is this confirmable, and should it be included?
Orville Eastland (
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23:58, 5 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the info, but Colonel Roberts did leave the army for a time and reenlist later, according to the article. I do appreciate the help- I didn't know that before!
Orville Eastland (
talk)
01:03, 10 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Either this entry or the Norris entry is wrong.
The entry on Michael Thornton contains the following statement:"For these actions, Thornton was awarded the Medal of Honor. The medal was formally presented to him by President Richard Nixon during a ceremony at the White House on October 15, 1973. The man Thornton rescued, Thomas Norris, survived his wounds and was awarded the Medal of Honor during the same ceremony for his April 1972 rescue of LtCol Iceal Hambleton and 1stLt Mark Clark from behind enemy lines." So according to this entry, Thomas Norris was awarded the Medal of Honor in October of 1973. However the Wikipedia entry for Thomas Norris states the following:"Norris received the Medal of Honor from President Gerald R. Ford in a White House ceremony on March 6, 1976." Either Norris received his Medal of Honor from Richard Nixon in 1973 or from Gerald Ford in 1976. Obviously one of the entries has to be wrong. — Preceding
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74.141.154.28 (
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02:18, 1 August 2012 (UTC)reply
NDSM ?
Not meaning to nitpick, but how did Lieutenant Thornton earn a National Defense Service Medal with two bronze service stars? He should have one star on the award for serving in Vietnam (the original medal) and during the Gulf War (one service star).
The only other two times the NDSM was awarded was for Korea and the War on Terrorism - which he was too young for the former and had retired well before the latter. — Preceding
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70.208.149.67 (
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02:51, 7 August 2013 (UTC)reply
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Not moved. There is a clear absence of consensus following extended discussion, and a reasonable policy-based argument that the current title is the most natural disambiguation for this subject.
bd2412T00:38, 30 July 2018 (UTC)reply
While I see that there are many articles in the category of Medal of Honor recipients with this disambiguator, it strikes me as suboptimal, since he is not a Medal of Honor. What about "(sailor)" which is also in use for some articles in the category? Or "(sailor, born 1949)" given the existence of
Michael Thornton (Medal of Honor, awarded 1884)?
Dekimasuよ!01:23, 28 June 2018 (UTC)reply
As noted in the nomination,
WP:WikiProject Military history has been listing the names of Medal of Honor recipients in the same form as those names appear in the Medal citation. The 19th century
Michael Thornton (Medal of Honor, awarded 1884) had no middle initial, while the 20th–21st century Michael Thornton is cited as
Michael E. Thornton, which is the article's current main header. However, since tens of thousands of Wikipedia biographical entries differ from each other solely by middle initials, it would seem that the form
Michael E. Thornton (Medal of Honor, awarded 1973) would be overly specific.
Oppose per
WP:NATURAL. He's referred to as Michael E. Thornton or Michael Edwin Thornton in a number of reliable sources, including on his own website. There's nothing wrong with the current setup.
Station1 (
talk) 07:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC) Or just move him to plain
Mike Thornton since he's the primary topic for Mike or Michael.
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Station1 (
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08:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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