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OR Senators Ask Biden To Rescind Honor Medals From Wounded Knee Massacre Soldiers

(Washington, D.C.) -- Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are leading an effort to ask President Biden to rescind Medals of Honor from 20 soldiers who were involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. It happened at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children were killed. They're asking the President to use his executive authority to rescind the nation's highest military honor from those soldiers.

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