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Medals of Honor for soldiers who perpetrated Wounded Knee massacre may be rescinded
mountaineer:
Medals of Honor for soldiers who perpetrated Wounded Knee massacre may be rescinded
By Davis Winkie, Military Times
July 20, 2022 1:30pm
--- Quote ---Lawmakers took a step last week towards taking back the nation’s highest award for valor from Army troops who perpetrated one of the most infamous Native American massacres in U.S. history.
The legislation to revoke the medals passed the House of Representatives as an amendment to the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill. Similar attempts have made it this far before, however, only to be stymied during compromises between the House and Senate versions of the bill.
Some 20 soldiers received the Medal of Honor following the Dec. 29, 1890, massacre near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, where troops from the 7th Cavalry and accompanying artillery units killed hundreds of Lakota men, women and children.
The U.S. troops had nearly completed confiscating weapons from a Lakota encampment when a struggle with a reportedly deaf man sparked a chaotic one-sided firefight.
When the smoke cleared, dozens of cavalry troopers were wounded or killed by friendly fire — likely from their artillery — and hundreds of Lakota were dead. ...
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Military Times via NY Post
catfish1957:
I am so sick of this revisonist shit.
Battlefield bravery knows no ideological or woke lines
mountaineer:
This article from 1994 critiques the awarding of medals - how many, and for what.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170629102546/http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1994MedalsWKnee.pdf
catfish1957:
--- Quote from: mountaineer on July 20, 2022, 09:07:03 pm ---This article from 1994 critiques the awarding of medals - how many, and for what.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170629102546/http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1994MedalsWKnee.pdf
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Wow, didn't read the whole article, but I might need to reconsider my last comment. Handing out 30 from basically one unit? That's fishy.
sneakypete:
I may be wrong,but I doubt any of them care.
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