Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.
@SecWar "Battle" its was a fucking slaughter of civilians you drunken moron.
@SecWar Good. We don’t revoke medals on the whims of changing times. It’s dishonorable to attempt it because those who earned them and those who awarded them aren’t able to defend themselves.
@SecWar As an "American" Indian who has earned his warrior feathers in multiple battles... let me say this... The world was forged by conquest. Get over it. America was born from my people, that is an honor... not a plight. Revisionist Marxists are ignorant and want to destroy
@SecWar Wounded knee was a complete slaughter of innocents, and it shouldn’t be celebrated. As a matter of fact it should be condemned and it’s not an unpatriotic stance whatsoever to state that murdering and obliterating women/children is a reprehensible act
@SecWar Transcript for those who cannot listen 👇 [Secretary of War Pete Hegseth] Under the previous administration, a review panel was convened to determine whether soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee should keep their medals. Now,
@SecWar Good decision. The battle of wounded knee was a clear situation of self-defense in an ongoing conflict with subversive and dangerous non-American combatants. It’s also very important to uphold the traditional interpretation of this event as we gear up for prolonged conflict with
@SecWar You should call it "Wounded Knee Massacre" and not "Battle of Wounded Knee". Around 300 indigenous Lakota people were brutally killed by US Army in 1890. 25 US soldiers also died. US Army wanted Lakota people to give up arms. Almost all Lakota people gave up arms but few guys
@SecWar That is where the country was at the time. Things may have changed over the years but those men fought for what our government said was right. It was not their position to question, but to do. They earned every accolade as did the brave Sioux. I do not begrudge an old enemy these
@SecWar The Wounded Knee Massacre was not a battle but the intentional killing of hundreds of Lakota Sioux by U.S. soldiers in 1890. About 350 primarily Lakota Sioux, majority of them unarmed women, children, and elderly people, were intercepted, while moving toward Pine Ridge, by 500
@SecWar If you are willing to defend the slaughter of innocent civilians in the past, you are perfectly capable of ordering that in the present. You are a danger to this country and don't deserve your position. You're just a drunk sociopath.
@SecWar At least the U.S. is consistent in its support for genocide.
@SecWar I have to imagine even the most racist of Americans are even a little surprised by this one.
@SecWar Will you do the same for veterans of the Battle of Wounded Penis? Or are you woke
@SecWar @MargoinWNC good!! history should never be changed.
@SecWar They were soldiers of the US Army. You don’t have to agree with their mission but respect their service. This isn’t difficult.
@SecWar Do you mean the Massacre where US Soldiers murdered over 300 civilians?
@SecWar Someday, someone will be honored for taking your scalp.
@SecWar The army plowed like 300 Lakota down because a deaf guy wouldn't give up his rifle that he paid for. Why are we proud of that behavior
@SecWar Whats next the My Lai Massacre troops get medals too?
@SecWar The soliders were following illegal orders to disarm Americans and deprive them of their 2nd Amendment Rights. Depriving them of their bows and rifles on the plains was a death sentence, no wonder they didn’t comply.
@SecWar Lol I had a 6 inch piece of shrapnel pulled out of my shoulder in iraq, and got denied a purple heart. I truly don't give a fuck about awards from 1890 when soldiers that are still alive are still getting robbed.
@SecWar We don’t want you
@SecWar We’re gonna celebrate the government disarming and genociding an entire tribe of native Americans? Are you fucking retarded?
@SecWar Yikes
@SecWar This is literally retarded…
@SecWar Dealing with the real problems. 🙄
@SecWar There was no battle. It was a massacre of mostly women, children and elderly you drunken fascist war pig
@SecWar It was a massacre and I think you would have a hard time finding anyone, right/left/independent that support your position.
@SecWar @PeteHegseth Calling a massacre a battle and awarding those who committed said massacre medals of “honor” is totally in line with government. Why back down now? I expect nothing less from the department of war of the U.S. government.
@SecWar There is no such thing as the "Battle of Wounded Knee." There was the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, which was a war crime committed by the 7th Cavalry. This doesn't change the fact that Col. Forsyth disgraced himself and all of his men.
@SecWar It wasn’t a battle, it was a massacre of unarmed Lakota men, women, and children, and that awarding medals of honor for such an atrocity is like awarding medals to the IDF “soldiers” who massacred defenseless women & children in Gaza.
@SecWar Based, Secretary Hegseth. Conquering this land was no small feat, and every brave man who took part deserves to be remembered as a true patriotic hero.
@SecWar On Wikipedia it's not even referred to as a battle, it's literally called the Wounded Knee Massacre, which included women and children. Thank you "Secretary of War". I don't think there has ever been an administration this unequivocally evil in the history of the country.
@SecWar “Battle” You mean “massacre” Yes, those “brave” soldiers that massacred men, women AND children 🙄