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The Arlington National Cemetery has eliminated the information of its website and educational materials about the history of the members of the black and female service.
Part of the unpublished content of the site was about veterans who had received the greatest military recognition from the nation, the medal of honor, according to the Task & Purpose military news site.
Content elimination is part of a major effort of President Donald Trump to eliminate practices of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the army and throughout the federal government.
Approximately 400,000 veterans are buried in the cemetery administered by the Army, which was established after the United States Civil War in the House of the General of the South, Robert E. Lee.
On the cemetery website, the internal links that directed users to web pages with information about the “notable tombs” of dozens of black, Hispanic and female veteran disappeared on Friday.
The pages contained short biographies on veterans such as General Colin L Powell, the first black president of the Joint Personnel Chiefs, which is the highest range in the Army after the president.
They also told the life stories of the members of the aviators of Tuskegee, the first black military aviators in the country.
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense had to restore training materials in the venerated aviators after a national protest for its elimination after Trump’s orders on Dei.
Information about Héctor Santa Anna, a World War II bomber pilot and a career military leader who has been called the war hero, has also been eliminated.
Site visitors can also have problems finding information, since the links to the main sections have disappeared. He no longer lists pages for African -American history, American Hispanic history and history of women.
The content still exists in some notable women buried there, including the former Judge of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and 14 veterans of the unit recently presented in the Oscar nominated film The Six Triple Eight, but is only found from a direct search.
Since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders that prohibit Dei within the federal government.
A cemetery spokesman said in a statement that he was working to restore links and content and remained “committed to sharing military service stories and sacrifice to the nation,” according to The Washington Post.
He added that he wanted to make sure the content was aligned with Trump’s orders and also with the instructions of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Representative Adam Smith, the main democrat of the Chamber’s Armed Services Committee, condemned content elimination.
“The whole matter is deeply worrying,” Smith said in an interview with the New York Times.
“Even if you have concerns about the way Dei was handled in several different places, I have never seen a problem within the army.”
Trump has made dramatic changes in the army in his second term, including the dismissal of the country general, CQ Brown, a black man who had supported diversity in the Armed Forces.
Secretary Hegesh, a former host of Fox News and veteran military, has pledged to obtain all diversity initiatives and accused General Brown of being “awakened.”
There are 2.03 million people who serve in the US Army. UU. In active duty or in reservations, with 30% identification as part of a minority group such as black or American native and 18% as Hispanic or Latin, according to the latest report of the Department of Defense. A fifth of those in the army are women.
