- Austin Orders Review of Wounded Knee Medals [07/25/2024]
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.
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
Exactly
From what I have read of "Ghost Dancing", they were seriously demonic events.
Made possible by European introduction of horses.
Next up will be reviews of awards to US troops serving in the assorted Philippine insurrections circa 1900-1915.
Who knows? The Babylonian Empire, maybe?
Thank you for including historical facts.
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.
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
I hate our government.
If it was black soldiers involved, this wouldn’t have gotten a second look.
Cool song
“Without access to their large collections of 2nd Amendment arms, the People were forced to rely on the police for survival.”
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.
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.
It’s not our government, it’s the cabal of orcs that have seized it.
Hopefully they will still be able to vote dim this election
"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)
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