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 ...
What a prick
Despicable!
Ah, yes . . . the official Joe referred to as “the black man”.
Nothing else pressing in that guy’s orbit? Incredible!
How about charging crews of the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor for dereliction of duty? Dismantle the memorial over the Arizona?
Madness - sheer madness!!!!
Es una broma? If Austin thinks this is of primary importance, then he has too much time on his hands-and someone needs to check into his mental state, too...
During WWII many American soldiers referred to enemy soldiers as “Japs” - clearly inappropriate, racist language.
How long before Americans who fought, and perhaps made utterances, against the Japanese have their medals rescinded and monuments destroyed?
Reassure me that I am worried about something that will never happen.
Why not for the illegal Vietnam War?
I thought the MOH Awards by Biden was bad enough-—160 years after the fact.
With all the enemies we have in the world-—THIS is a PRIORITY????
Truman called them the yellow horde and dropped two atomic bombs on them.
Double jeapordy. This was adjucated in 1917. Austin has no standing.
“The Civil War was fought over slavery.”
That is an interesting comment.
Who was fighting to overthrow constitutional slavery?
No. Lincoln was willing to let slavery stand, if it would preserve the union.
Double jeapordy since this was adjucated in 1917. Austin has no standing.
Boy, he has his priorities right! This is what is really important! /s
Darth Idi, steeped in Advanced Cretonics!
That’s how we were programmed to think. You’re right.
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