Talk:List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

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far be it from me to lessen captain mcgonagle's accomplishment, but it wasn't part of the vietnam war, which is the subject of this list. i would suggest that he doesn't belong here.he does have his own article.Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:52, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

are we now including entire moh citations on this page? they all (?) have the citations on their individual pages.Toyokuni3 (talk) 04:23, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since Capt. Chaplain Liteky renounced his MoH in 1986, shouldn't there be a note of that by his name? For that matter, has the Department of Defense (and the Veterans' Administration, I suppose) recognized that renunciation? Just curious. —MicahBrwn (talk) 07:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No they have not, several have tried to renownce ot, some gave it back and still others stated publicly that they didn't want or deserve it the DOD or the VA has ever recognized a renunciation.--

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--Cuprum17 (talk) 20:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added a short neutral notation of the disposition of the medal awarded to the unknown soldier from the Vietnam war, together with a footnote linking to a DoD statement.

Lee-Anne (talk) 18:06, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The national archives has an online database of "Records of Awards and Decorations of Honor During the Vietnam War, created 5/1969 - 3/1973, documenting the period 12/1965 - 11/1972". This is apparently not comprehensive, but has interesting information on awards other than the Medal of Honor. It also lists things like "Lawrence R. Adams" was recommended for a Medal of Honor, but awarded the Navy Cross. Here is the link: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3976

Ydorb (talk) 21:44, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've been working through Category:Articles that include images for deletion as of November 2010, and this list is currently a member. I attempted to remove the deleted files, however I'm struggling to do that without messing up the table - I am admittedly rubbish with them, and especially don't want to mess this one up as it is a FL. Could someone familiar with the article/table please remove the files? Thanks, Acather96 (talk) 08:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've added all the recent awardees.

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It has been pointed out by a visually-impaired reader that the current use of blue text on a lavender background in the table (for posthumous awards) is difficult if not impossible for them to read (OTRS #2014092910025261, for those with access). This format would appear to contravene Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Color, as (according to Snook's Contrast Check) it does not meet even the WCAG 2.0's AA level. Is there any good reason for using lavender over, say, light grey as a highlight for posthumous awards? If not, I would strongly recommend changing the table to conform with our accessibilty guidelines. Yunshui ^雲_水 09:10, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Having noticed that earlier versions of the article used the pale grey #e3d9ff, I've replaced the lavender with this shade (which does comply with the accessibilty requirements). Yunshui ^雲_水 08:08, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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