Would not a refusal to accept a decoration in the name of your command be also hypocritical.
I was holding Hackworth to Hackworth's own standards for others (which are ridiculous standards in that the only one he thought lo\ived up to them was himself).
Apparently that was lost on you.
I think he nitpicked others unmercilessly to promote himself - like most 'journalists'.
Your question implies that I think anyone should be held to that standard - but I don't. I reserve that standard for the one who set it: Hackworth himself.