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.
Lets go back to the revolutionary war and take a look at that too. 🙄
I don’t think the Pentagon can rescind a Medal Of Honor. This medal, if I am not mistaken, is a Congressional act. For this to happen Congress must do it.
I don’t think they care. They’ll do what they want to do.
The 27th Maine was awarded 864 Medals of honor in a single day in 1863 but they were removed 53 years later.
“On May 22, 1863, ninety-six men performed actions for which they received the Medal of Honor at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In all, at Vicksburg 120 Medals of Honor were awarded. The most medals awarded in a single day, however, are attributed to June 30, 1863. Three-hundred members of the 27th Maine agreed to remain on duty to guard Washington, DC for four additional days after their enlistment ended. Nevertheless, the entire regiment of 864 men was awarded the honor as a result of a typographical error. The government later recalled all medals given to the 27th Maine following a 1916 review of the case.”
Perhaps they should check those given out like candy at Veracruz, in 1914. 63 Medals of Honor were received for actions during the occupation.
Thanks. Ive noticed that over the years some important links I have saved on the Indian Wars now go to a Error 404 Page not found. someone must be scrubbing the internet.
"A blog dedicated to documenting through primary sources, the Army's actions at Wounded Knee"
Thanks for the article about Little Bat!
Still waiting for someone to explain what Admiral Kidd did to get the Medal. Standing on the bridge during a battle comes with the job. Certainly not the only naval officer to die in battle in World War II.
The Omaha Bee: Here is a book based on the Omaha Bee accounts of Wounded Knee. (You may already be aware of this book, but others may not.)
Sting of the Bee: A Day-By-Day Account of Wounded Knee And The Sioux Outbreak of 1890--1891 as Recorded in The Omaha Bee Paperback – April 19, 2016
Sting of the Bee: A Day-By-Day Account of Wounded Knee
by Charles H. Cressey (Author), Col. Samuel L. Russell
"Wounded Knee, as it was first reported, and, as you've never read it. A sensational contemporary view of the events surrounding the Sioux outbreak of 1890 and 1891 that violently climaxed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. These articles from the Omaha Bee represent some of the most widely read and published correspondence of that sanguinary winter. Until now, Will Cressey’s on-scene dispatches have never appeared under a single cover. Step back 125 years into the past and experience the exhilaration and anguish that was the sting of the Bee. The language of the day was harsh and reflects the strong views that many Americans held of the native tribes following more than two and a half centuries of persistent conflict with the indigenous communities that first occupied the continent....snip...."
These people truly hate America!
“It’s never too late to do what’s right.”
or
Never to late to force a revision to history.
But they were. Get over it, Gen miley.
If they are just getting started with the review, Trump maybe in office before the review is complete and President Trump can veto the rescinding of the medals.
If they are just getting started with the review, Trump maybe in office before the review is complete and President Trump can veto the rescinding of the medals.
Thanks for posting this.
> Twenty-five U.S. soldiers were also killed in the engagement.
a key fact commonly ignored by the popular narrative.
I don’t think people in modern times understand *precisely why* the Indian wars were mostly a “war to the knife”.
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