Battle of Wounded Knee

[Fu King Lawyer]

https://www.stripes.com/history/2024...-14585311.html

I have mixed emotions about this - and the article explains that 900+ past awards of the medal have been rescinded. There were injustices. Still, applying today's standards to revoke an award (per a different news article) for 'carrying off wounded under fire', should still rate the award even if the war was in 20/20 hindsight, wrong.

The soldiers are pawns in national policy.

"The review will consider the lower standards for the Medal of Honor prescribed at the time of the incident, decades before other top valor medals — including the Bronze Star, Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross — were established ...".

With SECDEF involved and picking the committee, I don't have much faith that the then lower standards for award, will prevail over the current level of political correctness.