That's interesting. MacArthur, known for leading trench raids from the front while unarmed was awarded a lot of medals in WWI. Because his mother was stateside and understanding communications in that era, how was MacArthur's mother involved in his being awarded medals for service in WWI?
She lobbied the Sec./War, and the senior brass. You do know that she lived at the Thayer Hotel for all four years that Dougie was at West Point. And that her disapproval of Mrs. Dougie #1 contributed to Dougie’s divorcing her [the bride had been one of “Black Jac” Pershing’s mistresses, along with George Patton’s sister. Pershing gave an oil painting of the bride as a wedding gift to the then happy couple].
And Dougie’s mother got away with it because she was the widow of Gen. Arthur MacArthur, who had won the CMH in the Civil War.