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Date published: 1/24/2010
RAPID CITY, S.D. --The U.S. Army has a flag with battle streamers that it breaks out for important parades and celebrations. One streamerThe Pine Ridge battle streamer boasts the highest number of Medals of Honor ever issued by the Army for any engagement. Twenty Medals of Honor were issued for this single action, more than for D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, or Iwo Jima. Because so many Medals of Honor were issued for this so-called battle the Lakota have always referred to as a "massacre," it would take a veritable act of Congress or action by the president to remove this streamer from the flags of the U.S. Army. The question asked by all American Indians is, "How can Medals of Honor, this nation's highest military award, be handed out to 20 troopers for taking part in the most wanton slaughter of innocents in the history of America?" More than 200 women and children along with more than 90, mostly unarmed, Lakota warriors were shot to death. Some historians and nearly all Lakota say that the number of people slaughtered on that day of infamy, Dec. 29, 1890, was closer to 350. In 1990, the 101st Congress passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 153 citing Wounded Knee as a massacre. Army Gen. Nelson Miles often referred to the massacre as "The Big Foot Slaughter [Chief Big Foot]." The Massacre at Wounded Knee was one of the most shameful, disgraceful, and embarrassing episodes to occur in the history of the U.S. Army. The massacre of innocents by the U.S. soldiers at Mai Lai in Vietnam, and the attempted cover-up, was also a black eye for the U.S. military. There were no Medals of Honor issued for this inhumane slaughter of innocents. The question begging to be answered on Wounded Knee and the Medals of Honor is: "How in the world can the United States validate awarding Medals of Honor to those soldiers who partook in this shameless slaughter? Were the victims considered to be less than human?"
This is ridiculus. No one alive today had anything to do with this - neither victim nor perpetrator. Its done - history. Its asinine to expect anyone to "pay" for it, if for no other reason than it belittles those who may have been wronged by thinking that anyone today could in any way truly apologize for something they aren't remotely connected with. You want a memorial? Then we should all do our best to learn from it, to try to ensure the kinds of things alledged here don't happen again.
he who makes them. They are fooling themselves into believing money overcomes all evils.
Source:Gospel according to Guderian.
Vietnam was a hellhole and you trusted people at your peril.
Wounded knee scenario was completely dissimiar.
that are not fixed will come back to haunt us (Num 32:23; 2Sam 21:1). Maybe that's part of what is happening to us now. I'm asking the Lakota and any others for forgiveness for my sake and my children's. If I am given a vote I vote that resources be spent on reparations. But I plead for mercy because I can't make the government do what is right.
conducted, most likely, by over zealous military and political minds. It was a shameful and uncalled for action. However, the writer's "attack" comparing Wounded Knee and Mai Lai is just as bad. In Wounded Knee, they knew there were women and chilren who were non-combabants. At Mai Lai, and all of 'Nam, you didn't know who were combatants. You could give a child food in the AM and he would shove a granade in your face at night!! MaiLai was wrong, but don't compare those two actions of our Army.
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