 Editor in Chief Bill   | 25 Jul 2024 6:11 a.m. PST |
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed a five-person panel to review the 20 Medals of Honor that the Army awarded to soldiers for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee in South Dakota on Dec. 29, 1890… Military: link |
79thPA  | 25 Jul 2024 6:41 a.m. PST |
Didn't this come up last year, as well? |
| robert piepenbrink | 25 Jul 2024 7:09 a.m. PST |
Are they planning on digging up the deceased vets, so they can be stripped of their medals in a televised ceremony? I need to know because this sort of thing greatly impacts how I paint miniatures and play wargames. |
| 35thOVI | 25 Jul 2024 8:55 a.m. PST |
"Are they planning on digging up the deceased vets, so they can be stripped of their medals in a televised ceremony?" Like the opening to the TV show "Branded"? 😉 Subject: Branded (TV series) Intro and Outro, Opening – YouTube
YouTube link |
| Grattan54 | 25 Jul 2024 8:57 a.m. PST |
All But One Man Died, There are Bitter Creek… |
 Grelber | 25 Jul 2024 9:32 a.m. PST |
I-80 crosses Bitter Creek in western Wyoming. I think of "Branded", and the intro song goes through my mind every time I drive through. Gelber |
| Gray Bear | 25 Jul 2024 9:34 a.m. PST |
Since you can go back in time and change things, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will next convene a five-person panel to reassess the Afghanistan withdrawal and declare it a resounding success in which no U.S. soldiers were injured or killed. |
| SBminisguy | 25 Jul 2024 11:31 a.m. PST |
Gray Bear +1 Far easier for a political apparatchik like Lloyd Austin to safely refight the battles of the past and reap the accolades of his political supporters than to fight real battles in the here and now. |
| 14Bore | 25 Jul 2024 5:10 p.m. PST |
I think any from Vietnam fighting Communists will get questioned next |
| Swampking | 27 Jul 2024 7:14 a.m. PST |
14Bore,
Nah – my impression is that Austin and his junta of drooling imbeciles will hit the Boxer Rebellion next, then the 'Banana Wars' of the 1920s or the Phillipine Insurrection. Oh, I can't wait until they start to revoke the promotions of Southerners during the MAW just because they fought in the ACW. It'll get worse before it gets better. |
| P Carl Ruidl | 29 Jul 2024 7:52 a.m. PST |
Tenth highest loss of life for the U.S. Army on the Plains. Many people conveniently forget that the Sioux fired first at Wounded Knee. Like Fort Sumter, and Pearl Harbor knocking a hornets nest out of a tree is just the beginning of your fight, not the end. |
| 42flanker | 30 Jul 2024 1:25 p.m. PST |
"Many people conveniently forget that the Sioux fired first at Wounded Knee." Many people might have read accounts that differ on that point. |
| P Carl Ruidl | 31 Jul 2024 9:10 a.m. PST |
42 Flanker: "Many people might have read accounts that differ on that point." Refer to the text "Lakota Recollections," Stanley Vestal's biography of Sitting Bull, as well as Robert M. Utley's biography of same. All source material heavily footnoted and citing primary Lakota sources. I also worked with many Oglala who cited family oral history mentioning their families starting the battle by shooting a soldier. Stay away from the heavily apologetic literature of the 1960"s and atonement literature of the 1970's. These should suffice to disabuse those aforementioned thoughts. |
