Joe Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has convened a special panel empowered to revoke Medals of Honor awarded to 20 US cavalrymen. The panel is looking at the Medals of Honor awarded for the Battle of Wounded Knee, where some 350 hostile Dakota men, women, and children were killed in a confused and one-sided fight. Ausitn’s charge is to review records of the event, investigate “each awardee’s individual actions,” and “consider the context of the overall engagement.”
“It’s never too late to do what’s right,” an unnamed senior defense official said in a statement Wednesday. “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner.”
The engagement occurred during the last gasps of the Indian Wars that began shortly after English…
