Trump Administration Removed Plaques Honoring Black WWII Heroes from Cemetery
It began quietly, as acts of forgetting often do. In the Dutch province of Limburg, visitors to the American War Cemetery at Margraten—rows of white crosses stretching toward the trees—noticed something missing. Two panels, once depicting Black American soldiers who had helped liberate the Netherlands, had vanished. No vandalism, no announcement, only absence—and, soon, an official explanation that made the silence heavier than loss.
It was November 2025, eighty years after George H. Pruitt Jr.—a twenty-three-year-old communications specialist from Georgia—drowned in a Dutch river just weeks after Germany’s surrender. His portrait, and the story of the 172 African American troops buried or memorialized there—about one in eight of the liberating force—had disappeared.
The American Battle Monuments Commission confirmed the removal, calling it a “review.”
Dutch outlets traced the timeline of the decision to the period when Washington was intensifying its campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. A gesture meant to make memory “neutral” had instead revived the very discrimination those men had died fighting.
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Trump is a racist piece of shit.
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