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Arlington National Cemetery has stripped content from its website related to Black veterans, the Civil War, and other information involving Black history to comply with the Trump administration's attack on DEI.
According to MSNBC, pages and links with information on prominent minority veterans, including Black and Hispanic people and women, the Civil War, African American history, and women's history have disappeared from the cemetery's website.
An archived version of the cemetery's page on African American history previously highlighted learning materials on the Civil Rights Movement and Black war heroes. That information was completely removed from the site. Links to webpages featuring the "Notable Graves" of Black, Hispanic, and female veterans were also taken down.
Other pages related to diversity in the military were shuffled under categories that don't mention race or gender.
According to the Washington Post, a spokesperson confirmed that the cemetery is scrubbing its content to comply with the administration's policies. The move comes amid Trump's anti-DEI push, which has sparked major changes within Secretary Pete Hegseth's Defense Department.
Hegseth vowed to remove "wokeness in the military," while Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, the second Black man to hold the top military position. He also pushed out Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the head of the U.S. Navy and the first woman to lead any branch of the armed forces.
“I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” Hegseth told Pentagon staff earlier this year.
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