Jessica Kutz

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the soldiers who massacred as many as 300 mostly unarmed members of a band of the Lakota people at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 would keep their Medals of Honor. Many of those killed were women and children trying to flee the onslaught of bullets from soldiers who had surrounded the camp.

“Under my direction, we’re making it clear, without hesitation, that the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 will keep their medals, and we’re making it clear that they deserve those medals,” Hegseth said in a video posted on X. “We salute their memory, we honor their service, and we will never forget what they did.

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