Wounded Knee Medals Keepers: Brave Massacre Honors 1890 Style
In a move oozing historical sensitivity circa 1890, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on social media declared soldiers who massacred around 250 unarmed Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee keep their Medals of Honor. Despite Native American pleas and the 1990 Congressional apology â shoutout to Sen. Warren and Rep. Tokuda's 2024 bill trying to revoke these awards â Hegseth insists these 'brave soldiers' deserve medals, because bravery in killing surrendered civilians is apparently history's latest litmus test. Meanwhile, Trumpâs administration adds encore: rewriting civil rights history, purging slavery narratives, and fighting supposed 'anti-white racism'âbecause whatâs a massacre without a rewrite? Karl Jacoby bluntly called it war crime sanitizing, but hey, history is 'settled now,' right?
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When you massacre 250 civilians but still get a Medal of Honor because bravery only counts if it's with U.S. cavalry, not moral decency. History is 'settled,' said Defense Secretary, probably from the hopeless corner of PR hell.
Congrats to the 7th Cavalry for their Medal of Honor-winning work at Wounded Knee, effectively rewriting 'massacre' as 'battle' and 'genocide' as bravery since 1890.
If rebranding mass slaughter as 'heroism' were an Olympic sport, the Pentagon would have more gold than those Lakota ever got peace.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/26/2025 | Author: Russell Contreras
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