Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.
While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
How very bigoted of him in a racism to the bottom.
Racist administration being racist.
Reminder that modern conservatism is a racist, fascist movement.
A medal for murdering unarmed civilians? How brave of them. They must have been very proud of those medals.
But it’s obvious why Hegseth is promoting it. I wonder what medal design he’s got picked out for the civilian slaughter he’s hoping for.
Did any of those soldiers actually keep that medal anyway? That seems like one of those things they would be trying their hardest to forget, keeping the medal would have sucked.
It was 1890 in South Dakota. The soldiers were probably proud of their war crimes.
