TIL we fought Koreans in 1870?

Good Grief, Charlie Brown.

That blockhead

He's such a clown

At least he deserted in Shanghai, instead of being Shanghai'd (iykyk) which is how my brain tried to read it at first.

We were trying to establish ourselves in Asia and jockeying for trade routes and influence in the area, we had just emerged form the civil war, where Europe was already established in some parts of Asia. Sometimes shit like this happened too, but it wasn't a larger conflict, just us trying to exert influence and people fighting us from time to time.

I came here to say, Charlie Brown can't win for losing.

That Charlie Brown, he's a clown

Of all the charlie browns in the world, he was the charlie browniest

I think the Medal of Honor was the only medal for gallantry the US had before WWI, so it required a bit less distinction back then -- it could be awarded for a range of actions that might only be worth a Bronze Star today. I wonder how he'd ended up in Hong Kong to enlist in the first place.

Maybe he was Shanghai’d, and why he went missing. How bad luck is that, get kidnapped, and marked as a deserter instead of them looking for him.

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He's a clown, that Charlie Brown. He's gonna get caught, just you wait and see...

And less than a century later, the Flying Ace came along. Doghouse and all.

There's definitely been an increase in the requirements to be awarded the Medal of Honor. I believe there was a "clean up" of about a thousand names when they removed awards that were considered 'unworthy'. People like Buffalo Bill had his taken away (although posthumously reinstated in the 1980s).

To put it in context, there have been 3,530 medals awarded and 1,523 were during the Civil War. That's more than the entire 20th Century combined.

If you want some really questionable awards for the Medal of Honor I'd start with the Battle of Veracruz. It triggered a new way of looking at medals in general and is broadly considered a turning point for the Medal of Honor.

He was quoted as asking “why is everybody always pickin on me?”

Yes, but the motivations for imperialism were different from country to country and the nuances are important. Slapping the broad label of “imperialism” on everything and then moving on is the reason we still haven’t learned our lesson.

Good for him. Freedom is better than waging war for some rich dude that won't go or send his family.

Deserted looking for a his kite probably

First Medals of Honor in a foreign conflict.

Korea was the ‘hermit kingdom’ in those days. Foreign visitors (especially missionaries) were banned. Many sailors who were shipwrecked were executed. As the US was trading heavily with China and Japan, incidents were bound to happen.

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what a clown

The first nuance is that people rarely exploited “natives” simply because they felt their race or culture was superior. Those are the excuses people made to justify, greed, corruption, and inadequate economic systems that were strained by war, famine, and policy.

Your points are reductionist and incredibly simplistic and I fear your version of a history book would only be about 3 pages long.

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Yeah, a bunch of soldiers received the Medal of Honor for the "battle" of Wounded Knee. It meant less back then.

Because you run like a girl and you sit down to pee.

…huh?

Clearly not a fan of the bloodhound gang.

Gotcha, and that would be correct lol

Everyone "Youre a hero!" Brown "Yup had enough of that bullshit"