Content about baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson, as well as the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and a Native American Marine who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima were among the webpages initially removed.
Content about baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson, as well as the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and a Native American Marine who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima were among the webpages initially removed.
Ken Stevens, who as a 19-year-old sailor aboard the USS Whitney saw the first bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack in 1941, died this week in Powers, Ore. He was 102.
A page on the Defense Department’s website celebrating Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was among several that were recently taken down amid the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on what it says are “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts in the federal government.
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