President Obama will correct a historical act of discrimination next month when he awards the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest commendation for combat valor, to a group of Hispanic, Jewish and African-American veterans who were passed over because of their racial or ethnic backgrounds.The WaPo headline "Obama to award Medal of Honor to two dozen veterans, including 19 discrimination victims" had me prepared to be mad, but on reading the piece it became clear the awards are not for being discrimination victims, but an honest attempt to correct for past discrimination. (And Obama gets the credit but the effort was started in 2002.)
Now if they really want to clean up the historical political 'errors' in MoH awards they'll rescind the 18 given for the 'Battle' of Wounded Knee.