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Posted on 07/25/2024 3:28:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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.”
The official added, “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner to understand the actions of the individual in the context of the overall engagement.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the Defense Department to review the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 soldiers for their actions during the December 1890 engagement at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, to ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest military honor.
DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness will convene a special review panel to conduct an individualized assessment based on standards in effect during that period.
The scope of the panel’s review is limited to examining each Medal of Honor awardee’ s individual actions during the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek. However, “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,” Austin wrote in a memorandum directing the review, which was released today.
Austin signed the memorandum last week following department consultation with the White House and Department of the Interior.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lloyd-austin-pentagon-dod/2024/07/25/id/1173950/
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.
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He awarded them to himself. The circumstances under which he “won” them are shameful. A soldier with an ounce of integrity would never have requested them.
Two strikes out of the gate.
I loved the Black Sheep Squadron show as a kid.
The F4 Corsair to me is one of the best looking prop jobs ever built.
Those soldiers are gonna be PO’ed.
The Corsair is a beautiful plane.
That was about to be my post. You beat me to it
Luke - I am your father.
Exactly. My thoughts precisely.
This has already been done. And it was done in 1917, only 27 years after the battle of Wounded Knee.
In 1917, based on the report of the Medal of Honor Review Board, established by Congress in 1916, 911 recipients were stricken from the Army’s Medal of Honor list because the medal had been awarded inappropriately.
These awards at Wounded Knee passed close scrutiny in 1917.
This is SO important, I hope the election turns on it. I couldn’t sleep at night knowing about this injustice.
Of course, it will never be enough.
Ty Cobb never killed anyone, he was just a jerk but maybe the greatest hitter of all time
The knowledge that medals are subject to review and retraction by a review board of trannies and officers in B&D dog costumes should really help solve the low recruitment problems.
When the government says you don’t need a gun, you need a gun.
“...and THIS is what that moron Austin is worried about?”
This man should have stayed with his ten pound sledge hammer.
George Washington created the “Purple Heart” for merit (like the Medal of Honor is now). He awarded it to 3 men during the Revolutionary War. I guess once the Pentagon reviews this 1890’s stuff, they can go back to the 1700’s and revoke those Purple Hearts too, seeing as they weren’t awarded for being wounded.
Fair enough, but was there any other U.S. military engagement in that period where anywhere close to 20 soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor?
One of my brothers met Boyington at an air show and got an autographed copy of his autobiography Baa Baa, Black Sheep.
The Corsair was a fine-looking airplane all right, but my own favorite from WWII was the P-38 Lightning.
I’m Choctaw. Lots of stuff happens when cultures collide. Some people act bad. Some people ARE bad. BUT, can we just leave this alone, please. Good grief.
I was never huge fan of the band Styx, but these clowns have Too Much Time on My Hands...............
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