Posted on 11/27/2019 8:17:57 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
“You can’t retroactively revoke a Congressional Medal of Honor— never has been done”
Yes you can and it has been done. A government review panel in 1916 revoked 911 Medals of Honor as far back as the Civil War.
An example of some of medals revoked. Every man in a Union infantry regiment that re-enlisted in 1863 was awarded the Medal of Honor. Hardly meets the criteria for the award.
According to Harvard University, Warren is a Woman Of Color. As such, she must never be questioned.
Sickles was one of 64 Medals of Honor awarded for action during the Battle of Gettysburg. The battle lasted three days and involved over 150,000 combatants.
Wounded Knee lasted about an hour and involved roughly 500 solders and 300 or 400 Sioux, most being women and children.
The United State Congress passed Concurrent Resolution #153 in October, 1990 to recognize Wounded Knee as a massacre and issued a statement of deep regret.
Remove the stain? More like “Scratch the Scab.”
“”””””CALVARY? “””””””””
Yeah, I think that’s the name of a town up in Canada, eh.
I think I’ll get me...a beer...
I hope that she is the dim nominee.
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I do too.
But lately her numbers have been falling.
I’m not worried about it though. Trump will wipe the floor with whichever clown they nominate. Including Bloomclown.
The Army traveled a long way to get to South Dakota from Calvary.
Virtue signalling on steroids.
She has to make up for her fake Cherokee claims over the years, and show she’s down with the Red Man’s struggle.
Interestingly Wavoka lived on until 1930 or so. He resolutely refused to be interviewed by anthropologists, etc. Eventually he was left in peace in his wickiup.
Didn’t TR conduct a Medal of Honor purge which struck several hundred names from the medal roster?
Nice move. Keep reminding people you’ve lied about being an Indian your entire life.
the purge was in 1916 under Wilson. In all,911 Medals of Honor were revoked.
Pocahonkey should stop trying to involve the indians, it pisses them off.
She doesn’t mind lying about being an American Indian when it furthered her goals. Shouldn’t she at least pay for all of her education that she obtained by lying
Minor corrective point: Dan Sickles was a Major General when he commanded the III Corps at Gettysburg, not a Major. On his capability as a MG, I’ll leave for other threads and commentators.
You are correct. At the time of the Civil War, the Medal of Honor was the only medal of any type awarded to soldiers for acts of valor. They were primarily for enlisted men to receive, often for seizing and retaining an enemy regiment’s colors. Officers were generally given a brevet (temporary) promotion for acts of valor or successful combat actions. George Armstrong Custer was breveted several times, while his younger brother received two medals of honor for seizing Confederate regimental colors. Look at the officers of the 7th Calvary (not Calvary, that is where Jesus was cruxified) at the time of the Little Big Horn, close to half of them had higher brevet ranks they received during the Civil War than they held as Regular Army ranks at the time of the 1876 battle. Custer LTC vs MG, Reno and Benteen were MAJ vs LTC.
True the Commission at the time recognized how ridiculous it was to dilute the value of what is a medal of Valor and sacrifice. Simply re-enlisting was certainly not that. Good that a review panel revoked them and others. Procedure through the War Department. The Sickles one stayed however— as idiotic as it was awarded 34 years after 1863— guy was a complete SOB and a@@hole. Seen his legbone at the Museum in DC == guy was a real self promoter. Compared to legitimate heroism, add.... even when not.
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