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To: coteblanche
Good Morning, Cote.

Thank you, Wounded Knee was definately not one of the high -lights of our Country's history, but that doesn't mean the story should be buried and forgotten.

For what it's worth, I agree the Sioux, the Army should remove the Battle Streamer for Wounded Knee (I haven't found out if they have or not yet), a massacre doesn't deserve a place with legitimate battle honors. The awarding of Medals of Honor for the participants is a travesty of that High Honor. IMHO,it may have been a "sign of the times" but that doesn't make it right, either by todays standards nor the standards of any time.
19 posted on 03/13/2003 7:44:54 AM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: SAMWolf
Disgusting that supposedly honorable soldiers would participate in wholesale murder.
But history is full of amatuers.
The battle pennants should come down.
20 posted on 03/13/2003 9:20:43 AM PST by Darksheare (Quickly flip the switch and watch the pretty colors, of the pyrotechnics of my heart exploding.)
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