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thisfinecrew2016-12-29 01:59 pm
untonuggan) wrote in thisfinecrew2016-12-29 01:59 pm
Rescind Medals of Honor for Massacre at Wounded Knee
[TW: settler colonial violence against Native people, genocide]
On this day in 1890, US troops massacred 150 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee. Afterwards, twenty of those soldiers were given the Congressional Medal of Honor. (In contrast, only seven soldiers were given the medal of honor during the decades-long Afghanistan war.) (Citation)
There is a petition to rescind those medals of honor.
No one should get a medal for genocide.
On this day in 1890, US troops massacred 150 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee. Afterwards, twenty of those soldiers were given the Congressional Medal of Honor. (In contrast, only seven soldiers were given the medal of honor during the decades-long Afghanistan war.) (Citation)
There is a petition to rescind those medals of honor.
No one should get a medal for genocide.