Tammy Duckworth actually said...

"we had our own Senator, a great Senator, Daniel Inouye had his Medal of Honor downgraded to a Silver Star simply because of his race."

"we are just basically dragging our--we are just waiting for them to die, which is unconscionable, because they were not waiting for Americans to die before they came forward to help."

"some of those decisions may have been not necessarily based on the actual facts of how these men served."

"I believe that the Federal agencies should take these inquiries from the Archives very seriously."