Should the 20 CMOHs presented to soldiers from the Battle of Wounded Knee be rescinded? Read the full after action reports before answering.

Watch out, you disagreed with the Original Poster. Everyone else who has done that (using very similar points, mind you) got a downvote with no explanation. Personally, I completely agree with you.

I received the same. Apparently, disagreement with a request to re-write the past because results in a down vote. I can understand that since we have agreed to the Geneva Conventions (not in force during this battle) that we have placed limits on how war is conducted. Instead of the 'total war' waged by Sherman during the Civil War and by the cavalry fighting during the Indian wars, we have limits. Mai Lai confirmed the limits and how we as a country respond to unacceptable behavior. But Mai Lai is after we defined 'acceptable' war while Wounded Knee was before. If the position is that we look back and judge others based on today's standards, then the founding fathers were terrorists and their acts of unconventional war against an established British government, was unacceptable, unlawful and at times contrary to our current definition of 'acceptable' warfare.

You shouldn't be allowed to down vote an opinion... its antithetical to discussion.