Another sign that the Military Times is a left leaning publication! To call the Heritage Foundation a "right-wing think tank" gives it away easily besides spelling black Americans with a capital B.
Why are there no images of these two removed displays in this article? Just laziness/time pressure or?
The second display appears to be not so important and very narrowly focused.
Maybe Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is here also on display by the Military Times and other left leaning news outlets! To blame president's efforts to end DEI initiatives for the removal of these two panels is probably wrong.
Is it not astonishing how many left leaning media outlets picked up on this rather negligible story as if there was noting more important to report!
Neither one of these three news outlets and some other news outlets bothered to produce images of these removed panels!
"The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands, has quietly removed panels displaying the contributions of Black American soldiers during WWII, sparking outrage from Dutch and American citizens.
One of the two displays featured an overall history of Black American military personnel fighting a double V campaign — victory at home and abroad — while the other told the story of George H. Pruitt, a Black soldier in the 43rd Signal Construction Battalion who drowned a month after the war’s end while attempting to save a comrade’s life in a German river. ...
The two panels were added to the visitor center in September 2024 after the American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. government agency that oversees the cemetery, received criticism from families and historians for not including the contributions of Black service members and their experiences fighting in the Netherlands. ...
The panels were reportedly rotated out in early March, one month after President Donald Trump’s executive order terminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives across the federal government. ...
The same month the panels were removed, The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank [???], contacted the ABMC for its supposed failure to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI initiatives. ..."
Of course, the Guardian reported about this incident too, but notice no capital B for black. The Guardian also failed to show pictures of these removed panels.
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed "Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge [???]"
The Washington Compost did not disappoint either.
U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops (behind paywall) "An American World War II cemetery in the Netherlands removed displays focused on Black American soldiers, sparking outrage and compelling Dutch politicians to appeal to U.S. officials this week to restore the information."
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