McArthur doesn't count. He put himself in for most of them,including the MOH.
The claim made on Hackworth is that he is our most decorated LIVING hero.
Even that's not true. The most decorated (counting ONLY valor awards and Purple Hearts) is LTC Robert Howard,retired. He is the only man I have ever heard of who was put in for a Medal of Honor on THREE separate occasions before he finally got one. ALL his valor awards were earned as a enlisted man,too. Not only did he never put himself in for anything,but I know for a fact he turned some down because he didn't think he had done anything special to deserve them. Bob is supposed to have more valor awards that Audie Murphy AND Sgt Alvin York,combined. Yet nobody has ever heard of him. In case you are wondering,he is the LTC who testified before Congress on tv that he had seen ironclad evidence that the North Koreans were holding US POW's from VN in North Korea while working as a intelligence officer in Korea in the late 70's.
BTW,Hackworth knows who Howard is.