Pickett Pickett receives Medal of Honor from Obama

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Nov 2014.
Did any of you guys ever hear of this when it happened? I never did.
(Apparently accidental)

"Received on behalf of a grateful Confederacy."


 
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This has to be a joke and a poor one at that.did you see the second article about Muslims being outraged because the Boston Bomber was burried in a Confederate cemetery...pure B.s.
 
It's especially ironic since some of Pickett's men had their slaves (or servants to use a more polite term) with them in the army, and escorted Blacks captured in Pennsylvania back to Virginia to be enslaved again (or perhaps for the first time). As one former slave put it when granted his freedom: the bottom rail is now on top. Imagine Pickett having to salute the "top rail" (Commander-in-Chief) at the award ceremony. Priceless.
 
Entirely plausible. The MOH takes an act of Congress. Anything can get attached to a bill, the voting takes place at 2 AM, before adjournment, and you know the old saying "you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."
 
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