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Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention
- The Pentagon has removed or flagged over 24,000 articles from its websites, including those on the Holocaust and suicide prevention, following Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's directive to eliminate diversity-related content.
- Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot stated that the department has acknowledged significant mistakes in the automated removal process and is pleased with the rapid compliance.
- There are calls for a more careful review to reinstate important historical content after recognizing the need for human oversight in the content removal process.
- Many articles that were removed do not relate to diversity, equity, and inclusion but have been flagged or taken down.
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A military afraid of remembering its history - La Voz Colorado
Colonel Benjamin D. Conde, USAF, Retired Is the military so frail that celebrating the heroism, milestones, and successes of American servicemembers will push it over the precipice and cause it to fail its mission? According to recent national and state-level reporting, as part of an effort to make the military more lethal, the Defense Department has marked tens of thousands of photos and online posts for removal from its websites. This includ…
Trump admin DEI purge erases Crow tribal figures from federal websites
Little Big Horn College Library employees are expressing frustration following a recent decision by President Donald Trump's administration to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion content across military and government online platforms, which resulted in the removal of many webpages highlighting contributions of Native American military members, including Chief Joseph Medicine Crow. We've endured so much already, said Danetta Jane Half-Hold…
Stanton and Ansari demand return of Arizona Native heroes to Pentagon website
Ira Hayes, alongside five other Marines, raised the U.S. flag on the island of Iwo Jima at the summit of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Photo by Joe Rosenthal | Associated Press/public domainContent about two prominent Arizona Native American veterans that was removed from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website during a purge of information that didn’t focus on the accomplishments of white men remains missing. The purge came in respons…
Letter to the editor: History will judge them
Democracy dies with the erasure of history and memory. We are witnessing this erasure in real time with the purge of 26,000 images from military service websites. Deleting Navajo Code Talkers? Pioneering female pilots? Key historical figures from Jackie Robinson…
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