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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals"
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
— Karl Jacoby (@karl-jacoby.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T11:11:13.364Z
"Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals"
— We Are Stardust We Are Golden (@yo-momma.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T12:50:24.345Z
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(72,542 posts)Phoenix61
(18,889 posts)chicoescuela
(3,205 posts)Not like they were going to get the Native American vote anyway.
oasis
(53,986 posts)sop
(19,330 posts)Introduced in the Senate on 04/12/2021, the Remove the Stain Act, S.1073, states:
"This bill rescinds each Medal of Honor awarded for acts that occurred on December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek, Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota."
"The bill requires the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard to remove the names of those award recipients from the Medal of Honor Roll."
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1073
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)Arazi
(8,887 posts)War crimes are acceptable and will be rewarded.
Carry on brave soldiers
this action coming this week along with the gathering of generals feels ominous.
Rewarding the slaughter of civilians with the MOH is sending a clear message
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