from Filipkowski // re: Wounded knee

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Excerpt from Ron Filipkowsk's
Today in Politics, Bulletin 215. 9/27/25 --

… Hegseth also put out a video making this announcement: “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.”

… The Atlantic’s James Surowiecki: “We gave 10 Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave 20 Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of Lakota, most of them women and children, at Wounded Knee. That’s absurd and embarrassing.”

… “Congress awarded a huge number of Medals of Honor to soldiers who fought at Wounded Knee in order to try to change the narrative around the event. But 135 years later, we shouldn’t be pretending that all of those soldiers ‘deserved’ the highest honor the military bestows.”