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2024-07-26 -Great Cultural Revolution

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

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Posted by Woodrow 2024-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 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

#5
#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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