Amid 'DEI' purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the “contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the United States, not just in the military, but in all walks of life.”

But the page, along with many others about Native American and other minority service members, has now been erased amid the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on what it says are “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts in the federal government, a review by The Washington Post found.

Multiple articles about the Navajo code talkers, who were critical to America’s victory at Iwo Jima and the wider Pacific theater of the Second World War, were also removed, along with a profile of a Tonawanda Seneca officer who drafted the terms of the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox toward the end of the Civil War.

The purge, which also targeted multiple webpages about women and LGBTQ+ service members, highlights how aggressively military leaders are pursuing President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI mandate. Their actions mean that some of the most authoritative sources of public information about the achievements of minority service members decades before government DEI programs existed have disappeared. Some of the articles, including the piece about Hayes, remain online on websites or social media accounts for the individual branches of the military.

https://wapo.st/4bzcQPe

[Tanuki]

1. Johnny Cash-- The Ballad of Ira Hayes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Johnny Cash popularized the song. He didn't write it however

[Deuxcents]

3. Ira Hayes died at 32 years of age and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Will they let him rest in peace or do these people have plans to relocate those suspected of DEI ?
I hate what is happening and those responsible with every ounce of my soul. When is enough, enough? How much are we, as a society, gonna put up with? Is there nothing to be done to stop this?

[usonian]

4. Go tell it to the Marines.

Literally.

[Initech]

5. How the fuck is this asshole continuing to get away with suppressing speech?

In the old days this would be a deal breaker. But not with the Fox News sponsored nightmare rotation. Fuck them all.

[Solly Mack]

6. America goddamn

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Gifted link:

I checked in at the Washington Post website this a.m. to see what was in the news, before seeing this here. I saw the headline for this article, but I know I won't be able to read the whole article there. Sometimes I can read a few paragraphs via news.google, so I went there.

The article appears to be gifted or a freebie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/17/pentagon-dei-native-american-iwo-jima/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQyMTg0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzNTY2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDIxODQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjFkMTljZThmLTg5MmMtNDc4Ni1hNDgxLTAwZTI3Y2JkOTNkMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbnZlc3RpZ2F0aW9ucy8yMDI1LzAzLzE3L3BlbnRhZ29uLWRlaS1uYXRpdmUtYW1lcmljYW4taXdvLWppbWEvIn0.Vl4_XrW7cle1xIII9cLwLdvk1HC6o_v-NX15bYKI6FI

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Goes to the same article I have linked above

That too is a gifted article.