Posted on 07/25/2024 3:21:00 PM PDT by DFG
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.
"It's never too late to do what's right," a senior defense official said in an interview this week. "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at defense.gov ...
I would find out how many people were assigned to do this, and cut the budget by that amount. If they have time to revise history, they are not needed.
This is disgusting.
Next, they’ll be after Audie Murphy’s CMoH because he was a violent white man in a segregated Army...
Back then a Medal of Honor was awarded for conspicuous bravery in battle doing something that would likely result in loss of life or grave injury.
Today they have turned it into a weird religious cult, complete with deep political and lifestyle vetting. Large numbers of deserving men do not get awarded it these days.
The Pentagram HATES the respect MOH holders get, and they resist them as much as possible.
It takes a years long investigation, the man has to be unimpeachable in every way also... they account for much more than that brave act.
It’s truly disgusting.
Watch Austin try to rescind medals for men from 135 years ago, when the standards were rational, and when there are simply no witnesses. And the “investigation” is certain to include modern diabetic indians burning sage incense and explaining how it was.
More of the communist revolution in America.
Remember, Biden did not resign the presidency.
This is what he calls Lloyd Austin “the black man.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZTdMeN3q8
It’s in the first 20 seconds.
Yeah, such a pressing issue . 🤡😵💫🙄
Just one more step toward destroying respect for our nation.
These Leftists won’t stop until they have made everyone think
anything would be better.
And then Communism walks in to “fix” things.
And that’s when the killing starts and never ends until
that system is destroyed.
These idiots out there have no clue what they are seeking
to unleash on themselves and their progeny.
My understand of the original intent for creating and then awarding the MOH was that there were essentially no other medals during the Civil War.
https://www.cmohs.org/medal/timeline
“These folks that were awarded the MOH were certainly worthy of recognized heroism, but the standards for receiving it today are quite different
The Medal of Honor has achieved prominence in American history like few other awards have. It’s a symbol for the very values its recipients displayed in the moments that mattered, an honor bestowed upon only the most honorable. But before it garnered such distinction, it started as a simple idea from Iowa Senator James W. Grimes—a bill authorizing the production and distribution of “medals of honor” to be presented to enlisted seamen and marines who “distinguish themselves by gallantry in action and other seamanlike qualities” during the American Civil War.
Since then, the Medal has undergone numerous legislative, design and presentation changes while still retaining what makes it truly special—its status as the United States’ highest award for military valor in action.”
Austin is a woke dic* head.
Yeah, that kind of came out of left field. I wonder what triggered that?
“ The Pentagram HATES the respect MOH holders get”
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What an excellent bit of truth. I appreciate the term Pentagram also.
Wounded Knee 1890 is Austin’s priority. What a worthless POS.
Historically many MOHs were rescinded from the civil war era because the criteria used today would not qualify the award. One entire unit was awarded the MOH simply for re-enlisting.
Still You would think they ought to pay more attention to current issues like, oh, lets see, readiness, recruitment and retention maybe??
Austin has a boss. He is following orders.
Question is who is his boss?
Obama?
Future generations will have ***** all throughout their textbooks.
Alternate view of Wounded Knee. “Little Bat’s” story....
Little, but a Brave Man.
The murder in a Crawford, Neb., saloon recently, of Baptiste Garnier, better known in the Black Hills country as “Little Bat,” removes from that section of the country one of its most famous characters.....
“Little Bat’s” last prominent field service was in connection with the Sioux campaign of 1890-91. When Big Foot’s band was corralled at Wounded Knee creek by the Seventh cavalry he doubted the sincerity of the Indians, who had promised to surrender formally on the following day. He told Colonel Forsyth of his fears. The night passed without incident. With the break of day the camps of the troopers and soldiers were astir. Breakfast over, an order was issued that the redskins surrender their arms. This they refused or at least did not do. Thereupon they were commanded to stand in line and submit to a thorough search, as it was “Little Bat’s” belief that the weapons were concealed beneath the folds of the savages’ blankets.
The search had not begun when a medicine man, an aged rascal freshly painted for trouble, slipped before the lines of Indians and those of the soldiers. He began a chant which was full of meaning to “Little Bat.” It was the Sioux’s death song. That a tragedy was at hand there could be no doubt in the mind of this seasoned scout.
In vain did he try to catch the eye of his colonel, who was at the extreme end of one line. Suddenly the medicine man stooped, picked up a handful of snow and sand and flung it high in the air, at the same time ceasing his chant with a shrill cry.
“Look out!” yelled “Little Bat” to the soldiers, but before they could raise their carbines a murderous fire was turned upon them from the two columns of savages. For a moment or more the troopers were in a panic. They knew not which way to turn, so sudden was the attack. But the tide of battle was quick to turn and within thirty minutes over 200 dead and wounded Indians lay upon the field. Of the troopers thirty-five, including brave Captain Wallace, were killed outright and twice as many more were disabled—an awful penalty to pay for attaching so little importance to the suspicions of so experienced a scout as “Little Bat.” Garnier got out of the cross-fire of troops and savages by crawling on his hands and knees to an elevation where a four-inch gun was planted. Here he lay pumping his Winchester into the Indians as they fled for cover in the draws of the hills.
Since the campaign of 1890 the scout has been a familiar figure about Crawford, Chadron, Hay Springs and Oelrichs. He seldom got farther east than Valentine, which is near the Rosebud reservation. The meager press reports of his death show that he was slain by a saloon manager or bouncer. It may have been brought about by a quarrel over monte. “Little Bat” enjoyed the confidence of Generals Crook, Terry, Carr, Merritt and Miles and next to Frank Grouard was the foremost scout in the army. He was not a relative of Baptiste Pourier, who is known as “Big Bat” and who enjoys some distinction as a scout.
Source: Omaha Daily Bee, (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.../1900.../ed-1/seq-14/) accessed 21 Sep 2014.
Nobody fought a war over slavery. They did fight one to centralize power in DC though.
The Civil War was fought over slavery. You may have a different opinion. But that’s not going to change the facts of why we fought the Civil War.
More than likely.
Doesn’t that pussbag have anything else to do???
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