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2024-07-26 -Great Cultural Revolution

In other news, will General Custer be charged with desertion??

[GatewayPundit] Pentagon Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Department of Defense to review the Medal of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers for their actions in the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place in 1890.

Austin wrote in a memo, "The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions."

In a separate statement, a senior defense official shared, "It’s never too late to do ~~what's right~~."
Because he is a pompous racist DEI black man and the soldiers were white.

NEWS: @SecDef Austin Orders Review of Wounded Knee Medalshttps://t.co/Cr9A7tIJ3s

— Department of Defense (@DeptofDefense) July 24, 2024

Austin signed the memorandum last week following department consultation with the White House and Department of the Interior.

Wounded Knee Medal of Honor Awards to Be Reviewed https://t.co/dfyMXEoGRT

— ™ (@1776Diva) July 25, 2024

On December 29, 1890, the 7th U.S. Calvary Regiment arrested members of the Lakota tribe for violating a government ban on a Native American spiritual ritual called "Ghost Dancing."

Once arrested, soldiers held them at a camp near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

As soldiers attempted to disarm members of the Lakota Tribe, a gun was accidentally discharged, and U.S. soldiers opened fire.

A battle quickly ensued, resulting in more than 250 Lakota tribe members being killed.

Twenty-five U.S. soldiers were also killed in the engagement.

It would be terribly cynical to ask what they are trying to distract us from.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
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#1 ....IMHO - YMMV, of course - this is something I've believed is at least justifiable for many, many years.

Wounded Knee was not a battle by any reasonably accepted definition of the word. It was a brutal, lopsided curbstomping conducted by men whose unit history more than motivated them to do it; and justified after the fact by Army leadership that was still embarrassed and angered by Little Big Horn.

To be clear - there was no way that Wounded Knee was going to end in anything other than Lakota dead. But the fight didn't require 290 dead.

And only ninety of them armed combatants.

20 CMOH? No.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-07-26 07:31|| 2024-07-26 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 It was one of the very few medals back then. Check the chest of former chairman Miley for the proliferation of ribbons and medals which basically is a personnel file. Today they're very parsimonious with the MoH. It certainly wasn't a Rorke's Drift.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-26 07:31|| 2024-07-26 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Going for the native American vote.

Posted by Bobby 2024-07-26 09:14|| 2024-07-26 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, George Custer was charged with deserting his post. Reproved, fined, and send back to work on the frontier.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-07-26 09:37|| 2024-07-26 09:37|| Front Page Top

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#4 Actually, George Custer was charged with deserting his post. Reproved, fined, and send back to work on the frontier.
Posted by: ed in texas 2024-07-26 09:37

Ed in texas,

Indeed - and there were also charges that he'd flat-out murdered a couple of recaptured deserters. Had it been anybody else besides Custer, they would have at best thrown him out and at worst locked him up and thrown away the key.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-07-26 11:53|| 2024-07-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#6 To quote a former Presidential Candidate - (Who has LEFT a Meme for the Ages) 👀😮🙂😂

Posted by Ebbash Ulirt1271 2024-07-26 12:59|| 2024-07-26 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps Austin can take a page out of a Vatican Playbook and dig up Confederate corpses to try for sedition or mutiny? When you need to do ANYTHING to troll for minority votes and tarnish the US Military, there is always someone who can find the next outrage to avenge.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-07-26 13:53|| 2024-07-26 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 So what will we have to occupy ourselves once all wrongs are righted?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-07-26 18:01|| 2024-07-26 18:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank you gentlemen for the refresher course on Custer. He was to say the least a wild one.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-07-26 20:38|| 2024-07-26 20:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Custer’s brother served in his unit. He won two CMOHs over tho corse of about a month or two near the end of the war.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-07-26 20:53|| 2024-07-26 20:53|| Front Page Top

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