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Pentagon Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s
GP ^ | 07/25/24 | Anthony Scott

Posted on 07/25/2024 3:28:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Enlightened1

It’s been posted many times, but was never more true.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell, 1984


61 posted on 07/25/2024 4:43:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: lastchance

Exactly


62 posted on 07/25/2024 4:44:04 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO LIONS)
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To: Enlightened1
Native American spiritual ritual called “Ghost Dancing.”

From what I have read of "Ghost Dancing", they were seriously demonic events.

63 posted on 07/25/2024 4:49:23 PM PDT by fso301
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To: lastchance
“Without access to their large swaths of hunting grounds.

Made possible by European introduction of horses.

64 posted on 07/25/2024 4:51:50 PM PDT by fso301
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To: 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.

Next up will be reviews of awards to US troops serving in the assorted Philippine insurrections circa 1900-1915.

65 posted on 07/25/2024 5:02:05 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Ex-Episcopalian
How far back in history will we keep going?

Who knows? The Babylonian Empire, maybe?

66 posted on 07/25/2024 5:02:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"Make sure they also rescind all the Buffalo Soldier medals too. They killed injuns too!"

Thank you for including historical facts.

67 posted on 07/25/2024 5:06:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Enlightened1

What a disgrace that this is what time & money is being spent on. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is a complete loser, DEI all the way, and full speed ahead in destroying America’s readiness.


68 posted on 07/25/2024 5:10:01 PM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: plain talk
You're a Sap Mister Jap

Lyrics:

You’re a Sap Mister Jap by Spike Jones

You're a sap, Mister Jap
To make a Yankee cranky
You're a sap, Mister Jap
Uncle Sam is going to spanky
Wait and see before we're done
The ABC & D will sink your Rising Sun

You're a sap, Mister Jap
You don't know Uncle Sammy
When he fights for his rights
You'll take it on the lammy
For he'll wipe the Axis right off a map
You're a sap sap sap, Mister Jap

You're a sap, Mister Jap
To make a Yankee cranky
You're a sap, Mister Jap
Sammy's going to spanky
Wait and see before we're done
The ABC & D will sink your Rising Sun

You're a sap, Mister Jap
Oh, what a load to carry
Don't you know, don't you know
you're committing hari-kari
For we'll wipe the Axis right off a map
You're a sap sap sap, Mister Jap

69 posted on 07/25/2024 5:15:01 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Enlightened1

I hate our government.


70 posted on 07/25/2024 5:15:13 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: JayGalt

If it was black soldiers involved, this wouldn’t have gotten a second look.


71 posted on 07/25/2024 5:16:27 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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72 posted on 07/25/2024 5:22:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: mass55th

Cool song


73 posted on 07/25/2024 5:24:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lastchance

“Without access to their large collections of 2nd Amendment arms, the People were forced to rely on the police for survival.”


74 posted on 07/25/2024 5:31:25 PM PDT by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; wally_bert
The Corsair was a fine-looking airplane all right, but my own favorite from WWII was the P-38 Lightning.

Agreed.

Too bad the British and French didn't order their contract planes to be delivered with superchargers and counter rotating prop's.

Even the Brit's "crippled" P-38's encountered dive compressability and like the Americans blamed loss of dive control on the plane rather than a phenomenon that all future fighter designs needed to take consideration of.

I always wondered what might have happened to the P-38 if the Brit's decided to see how the P-38 would perform with Merlins? The P-51 sure was a pig without the Merlin. Perhaps prior Britsh experience with the "crippled" P-38s caused someone in the RAF/MOD to wonder how the poor performing P-51 might do if equipped with a Merlin?

Also too bad the P-38 cockpit controls were never simplified. The result by 1944 being large number's of average, hastily trained P-38 pilots having too many things to do, especially when jumped and response needed to be instinctive.

Then there was the issue of using British aviation gas in Northern Europe.

75 posted on 07/25/2024 5:32:16 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Eli Kopter

In 20 years there won’t be anything left that’s named after George Washington himself, nothing more than a craven slave owner, just shy of Hitler in Hell.


76 posted on 07/25/2024 5:44:14 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s not our government, it’s the cabal of orcs that have seized it.


77 posted on 07/25/2024 5:45:52 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Enlightened1

Hopefully they will still be able to vote dim this election


78 posted on 07/25/2024 5:56:24 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: plain talk
Thanks! That's just one of the songs Jones wrote. Another favorite is "Der Fuehrer's Face."

Der Fuehrer's Face

"Spike Jones and his City Slickers were big in the 40's and 50's. He even had his own TV shows over a period of different years. Comedian Bill Dana of Jose Jimenez fame was featured on the show. We watched it when we were kids. Spike and his band made many parodies of popular songs from the 40's, plus the ones Jones wrote himself. I found a three disc collection of his music on Amazon.

Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection by SPIKE JONES (2011-01-25)

79 posted on 07/25/2024 6:05:29 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Enlightened1

Communists always destroy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQBMk69ZnlU


80 posted on 07/25/2024 6:13:35 PM PDT by logitech
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