re: Congress working to revoke 20 Medals of Honor given after the Wounded Knee Massacre

Complete fricking waste of time.

Wait until they find out we executed hundreds, maybe thousands, of Japanese POWs on our island hopping campaign of WWII

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They’ve already started that with confederates; but I was told there’s no “slippery slope.”

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That is old news.

They already moved on to the founding fathers and Abe Lincoln.

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Issue an apology if you feel one needs to be made, and move on.

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This is where I'm at.

What happened at Wounded Knee was shameful, and some Native Americans have been calling for these Medals of Honor to be revoked for years. An relatively high number of them were awarded too, some simply for unspecified "bravery".

That said, working to revoke these now is a pathetic deflection by Congress. It's a political virtue signal that will accomplish nothing except piss off the descendants of these men.

If some members of Congress are doing this in good faith, they should at least enlist historians to fill in as many possible details about the recipients that day. Treat it like a football replay. If there isn't conclusive evidence that an individual acted out of order, they get to keep their medal.

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Maybe they can figure out how to undrop those two nukes we put on them that massacred an exponentially greater amount of people than wounded knee.

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I would say something about Dresden, but they don't get upset about killing white people

So putting aside the question of whether they should be spending time on this.

20 Medals of honor for a single encounter does seem like an excessive amount right? Especially for a one side Native American battle.

For reference, a quick Google search tells me only 16 people received medals of honor for the D-Day campaign.

So the fact that 20 of these guys got the award for killing mostly unarmed Natives seems a little silly right?

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Gonna dig up their bodies, desecrate their graves and rip their medals off too?

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Go after the stipends paid their widows and children (adjusted for inflation), and build a casino to fund the survivors of the tribe.

Gubment dividing society, and solving issues that don't exist.

No one is debating whether if they deserve the Medal of Honor or not. Everyone agrees that the vast majority did not. There is some debate on two or three.

However, the Medal of Honor was one of the few medals awarded prior to WWI. Medals such as the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star were not established until WWI.

A lot of early recipients of the Medal of Honor were undeserving based on the standards in place for the past 100 years. Hundreds of early recipients of the medal were stripped of the honor when new qualifications were put in place during WWI, and the medal increased significantly in prestige.

Others have been stripped over the years since then. This action is not unprecedented. People have been advocating for Wounded Knee to be addressed for years.

However, aren’t there more pressing issues facing the country right now? New evidence wasn’t recently uncovered. Politicians love to virtue signal and distract the public from the real problems, while simultaneously doing nothing to solve those problems.