Sorry, but Hackworth's bread and butter was trying to appear as one who called "bullshit" on the top brass. Yet by doing so he became a hypocrite, as one who had to kiss butt to attain the rank he did and earn the b.s. accolades along that way that he never declined.
I do not doubt his patriotism, heroism, or service. I simply point out that he was likely guilty of the same hypocrisy he decried.
I just call him on his "bullshit" the same way he did to others.
We can pretend that his motives were pure, but he was in fact a self-promoter who disingenuously packaged himself as one interested exclusively in the well-being of soldiers.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Would not a refusal to accept a decoration in the name of your command be also hypocritical.