Netflix To Create Film Adaptation Of BioShock
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Also for you "ambush" obsession, actually the 7th Cav soon faced an actual ambush, and what happened is they would all have been killed if they didnt get rescued by a competent unit, because they were just a bunch of retarded murderers:
The 7th under Custer was defeated by thousands, that's perfectly understable even as it was really barely a fight (not much of a "last stand" really). Now these complete retards here, what the fuck was even that?
And remember they still remain the most MoH decorated outfit in the American history.
And the absurd medals are a huge issue. From 2021, including facts of what happened:
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(5) To date the Medal of Honor has been awarded only 3,522 times, including only 145 times for the Korean War, 126 times in World War I, 23 times during the Global War on Terror, and 20 times for the massacre at Wounded Knee.
(6) The Medal of Honor is awarded in the name of Congress.
(7) As found in Senate Concurring Resolution 153 of the 101st Congress, on December 29, 1890, the 7th Cavalry of the United States engaged a tribal community “resulting in the tragic death and injury of approximately 350–375 Indian men, women, and children” led by Lakota Chief Spotted Elk of the Miniconjou band at “Cankpe' Opi Wakpa” or “Wounded Knee Creek”.
(8) This engagement became known as the “Wounded Knee Massacre”, and took place between unarmed Native Americans and soldiers, heavily armed with standard issue army rifles as well as four “Hotchkiss guns” with five 37 mm barrels capable of firing 43 rounds per minute.
(9) Nearly two-thirds of the Native Americans killed during the Massacre were unarmed women and children who were participating in a ceremony to restore their traditional homelands prior to the arrival of European settlers.
(10) Poor tactical emplacement of the soldiers meant that most of the casualties suffered by the United States troops were inflicted by friendly fire.
(11) On January 1, 1891, Major General Nelson A. Miles, Commander of the Division of Missouri, telegraphed Major General John M. Schofield, Commander-in-Chief of the Army notifying him that “[I]t is stated that the disposition of four hundred soldiers and four pieces of artillery was fatally defective and large number of soldiers were killed and wounded by the fire from their own ranks and a very large number of women and children were killed in addition to the Indian men”.
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(15) General Miles contemporaneously stated that a “[w]holesale massacre occurred and I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee”.
(16) Allowing any Medal of Honor, the United States highest and most prestigious military decoration, to recognize a member of the Armed Forces for distinguished service for participating in the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Native Americans is a disservice to the integrity of the United States and its citizens, and impinges on the integrity of the award and those who have earned the Medal since.
The loading and aiming took place before it. It was a part of the escalating tensions.
There was no "plan". It was an accident and then it was just carnage after they were fired on.
They weren't any "attackers", they were defenders. Defending not just some place or idea but their families from murderers and after having been mostly disarmed.
What this dying officer said he thought was a signal (so he says he ordered to "fire at them") was really the medicine man doing his routine symbolic gesture. When he mentioned how some raised their weapons above their heads "like in an offering" he didn't know what they were saying, and it was really one guy who did so and he started shouting how it's his rifle that he paid a good price and he's not going to just give it like that. (I don't remember was it mentioned in this particular book.) He just didn't understand this, too.
Your so invested into defending your stupid misconception, is it actually not even your original idea?
It was the this officer telling what he didn't understand (as he was dying). He didn't know customs, he didn't know the language, he was scared (both sides were increasingly scared) in the chaos of a moment that he and other officers created a needlessly extremely tense situation, and had their weapons already readied to fire on his orders too (which terrified the older Indians who decided to surrender all weapons after all, but this obviously didn't end up well). Which happened, among other reasons, because they brought only one official interpreter and didn't even bring their own Indian scouts to the meeting.
That's similar how the feds didn't care about what they dismissed as "bible babble" and so didnt bring any religious experts to Waco as advisors in negotiations and planning, they instead brought tanks against those people. And they have brought tanks to Wounded Knee 2 too for that matter. And likely shot their own man, because it's a tradition.
Also he might have been even still drunk when it all happened.
Do you just pretend you can't understand this now? Do you now roleplay as him to assume the worst, even if you know what really happened there unlike he did then (causing a bloodbath which costed him his own life)? Or are you just so contrarian, or so stubborn in your mistakes, or simply trolling and wasting my time?
And here's also an official National Park narrative:
They showed I was right, you either complete cretin or troll. Now I just showed you the very same thing again, not to the contrary.