re: #150 reine.de.tout

heh.
Same thing happened to my father-in-law.
His birth cert shows him as J.W.
When he joined the service, he had to have a “real name”. So he chose “John William”, and became John forever after.

When my brother registered for the draft, he wanted to completely drop his middle name, no initial or anything. He ended up with three initials, “NMN” for “No Middle Name”.