For nearly two years, the American Cemetery in Margraten, The Netherlands — solemn site of more than 8,300 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule — displayed commemorative panels honoring the Black military personnel who fought for freedom abroad that they were denied at home.
Until, in early March, the panels were quietly removed, almost certainly as part of the Trump administration effort to cleanse American history of conflict and negativism and to play down the separate contributions of minorities.
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