I've heard something similar about South Boston and the Vietnam war - highest enlistment rate for a town that size, something like that.

Of course, you have VT with the highest number of Medal of Honors outside of the service academies. Yesterday, Luther "Jim" Doss's name was inscribed on the pylons at VT for service during the Vietnam war. Read up on him, Ranger LRRP, purple heart, two bronze stars.. (I'm not quite sure why he isn't deserving of a MoH).

Tom Wolfe noted in one of his novels that the Appalachians - a population equivalent to NYC - produced 50 MoH awardees during WWII, NYC produced three...one who was from the Appalachians.

Oh yeah, there's a guy named William Overstreet from Clifton Forge

PS I stand by my facts although I was thinking VT had five not seven MoH winners, I don't particularly want to get into a contest on this. Family lore has it that two of my dad's cousins ran into each other on D-day (really D day + 6) somebody else recognized the name and pointed over somewhere to someone with the same name.


[Post edited by `lag at 11/11/2017 12:31PM]