US EditionHegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
Secretary Hegseth upheld a 2024 review panel's recommendation that 20 soldiers retain their Medals of Honor for actions during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, despite criticism from lawmakers.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre would retain their Medals of Honor, despite calls for revocation from Native American Rights activists.
- The massacre resulted in the deaths of an estimated 250 Lakota people, including women and children, as the U.S. Army attempted to disarm them.
- Many Indigenous activists criticized Hegseth's decision, calling it an instance of 'stolen valor.' Chase Iron Eyes stated, 'We're at war with liars, racists, spineless rats unfit for righteous leadership.
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The National Congress of American Indians has strongly condemned a Pentagon review that decided against revoking medals awarded to US soldiers at the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee, an event which many historians consider a massacre. “Celebrating war crimes is not patriotic. This decision undermines truth-telling, reconciliation, and the healing that Indian Country and the United States still need,” Larry Wright Jr, the Congress’s executive directo…
State Pen stabbing, Wounded Knee, Tik Tok deal
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Heather Cox Richardson: Hegseth Wounded Knee Order Perpetuates Sordid Politicking of Medals of Honor
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a profound history of the partisan politics that led to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. The esteemed historian and political commentator draws on her 2010 book to offer this deep context to frame Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to protect the Medals of Honor issued to the Seventh Cavalry soldiers who slaughtered hundreds of Lakota in that massacre as a Republican incompetent honoring Republican incompetence…
Wounded Knee soldiers will keep medals
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that he decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday…
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