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Waterloo World War II Heritage City fund created to help education efforts

News-Press Now 20 Mar 2025
WATERLOO — After being designated as an American World War II Heritage City by the National Park Service, a fund has been created to pay for educational costs ... .
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World War II veteran, friend and Dunnellon resident Clinton Burns has died. He was 103.

Ocala Star Banner 20 Mar 2025
Clinton Burns, a longtime Dunnellon resident, popular McDonald's customer, World War II veteran, and owner of a lawncare service who worked beyond 100, has died ... "He loved all his family," Delifus said.World War II.
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World War II era shipwreck could trigger $200m oil spill clean up

RNZ 20 Mar 2025
Documents reveal a World War II era shipwreck could trigger a $200 million oil spill clean up but the government is going against officials' advice to at least do a risk assessment survey.
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Mementos of past heroes on display at Lindenhurst Knights of Columbus

Newsday 20 Mar 2025
A group of 38 World War I veterans formed the ... “My dad was in World War II, so this hit close to home.” ... “My dad was in World War II, so this hit close to home.” ... Veterans of World War I and World War II.
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The Collector: John Simanton’s ship model started when he was a teen and helped during his Navy career

The Spokesman-Review 20 Mar 2025
Raised in a Chicago suburb, Simanton said he was always interested in ships, models and World War II ... During World War II, thousands of ships were disabled, sunk or partially sunk in the Pacific Ocean.
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From erasing the stories of Navajo “code talkers” on the Pentagon website to demolishing a “Black Lives Matter” mural in Washington, President Donald Trump’s assault on diversity across the United States government is dismantling decades of racial justice programs. Delivering on a campaign promise, the Republican billionaire made it one of his first acts in office to terminate all federal government diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, which he said led to “illegal and immoral discrimination.” The crackdown on DEI initiatives at the Pentagon has been broad, ranging from a ban on recruiting transgender troops — a move stayed by a court this week — to removing vast troves of documents and images from its website. Earlier this month, Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin reported that Arlington National Cemetery had begun to wipe its website of the histories of Black, Hispanic and women war veterans. “It’s a sad day when our own military is forced to turn its back on sharing the stories of the brave men and women, who have served this country with honor,” Levin wrote on his Substack. “This insanity must stop.” – ‘Woke cultural Marxism’ – References to war heroes, military firsts, and even notable African Americans were among the swathe of images and articles marked for deletion, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press. Among the more than 26,000 items marked to be removed were references to the Enola Gay, the US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — apparently because the plane’s name triggered a digital search for word associated with LGBT inclusion. Other content removed by the Pentagon included stories on the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African American military aviators, and baseball legend and veteran Jackie Robinson. Responding to a question on those and other removals, the Pentagon on Wednesday said it saluted the individuals, but refused to see “them through the prism of immutable characteristics.” “(DEI) is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the services’ core warfighting mission,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot. He added that in “rare cases” that content was removed that should not have been, it would be restored — as was the case with the articles on Robinson and on Navajo “code talkers” — but defiantly stood by the purge as a whole. – ‘Erase history’ – Not everyone has been convinced by the Pentagon’s explanations around the purge. Descendants of the Native Americans who played a vital role for US forces in World War II said they had been shocked to discover their ancestors’ heroic contributions had been effectively deleted from the public record. “I definitely see it as an attempt to erase the history of people of color in general,” said Zonnie Gorman, daughter of military veteran Carl Gorman. Carl Gorman was one of the young Navajo “code talkers” recruited by the US Navy in 1942 to test the use of their Indigenous language, whose complex structure made it an almost impossible-to-crack wartime code. Several web pages detailing the role of the group, whose contribution was key to the United States’ victories in the Pacific between 1942 and 1945 in battles such as Iwo Jima, recently disappeared from the Pentagon’s site. For Gorman, a historian, the action was an insult. “From the very beginning, we are very invisible in this country, and so to have a story that was so well recognized for us as Indigenous people, that felt good,” she told AFP. “And then this is like a slap in the face.” – Chilling effect – The US president’s move to end DEI programs has also affected more than just the federal government. Since he won last year’s election, several major US corporations — including Google, Meta, Amazon and McDonalds — have either entirely scrapped or dramatically scaled back their DEI programs. According to the New York Times, the number of companies on the S&P 500 that used the words “diversity, equity and inclusion” in company filings had fallen nearly 60 percent compared to 2024. The American Civil Liberties Union says Trump’s policies have taken a “‘shock and awe’ approach that upends longstanding, bipartisan federal policy meant to open doors that had been unfairly closed.” US federal anti-discrimination programs were born of the 1960s civil rights struggle, mainly led by Black Americans, for equality and justice after hundreds of years of slavery, whose abolition in 1865 saw other institutional forms of racism enforced. Today, Black Americans and other minorities continue to disproportionately face police violence, incarceration, poverty, homelessness and hate crimes, according to official data. - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer 20 Mar 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) \u2014 From erasing the stories of Navajo .
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What to know before going to the annual Bataan Death March

Las Cruces Sun News 20 Mar 2025
About 9,600 people will gather to commemorate the lives of those who were in the Bataan Death March or who were taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.
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Trump's deranged purge of American history is the story of white supremacy

Alternet 20 Mar 2025
Suribachi, Iwo Jima, sat for years on a Pentagon web page honoring the contributions of Native Americans who served in World War II ... Hector Santa Anna, a World War II B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot and career military leader;.
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Aurangzeb tomb row: AIMIM’s Jaleel questions riots, cites WW 2 films

The Siasat Daily 20 Mar 2025
“The western countries preserved monuments related to World War II and the generations that came after that learnt lessons out of it. Numerous films were made in Europe during World War II, but it did not lead to any riots.
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What is the Alien Enemies Act that Trump cites for deportations?

The New Arab 20 Mar 2025
... Franklin Roosevelt used a revised version of the law during World War II to send Japanese residents and to a lesser extent Germans and Italians—most of whom held US citizenship—to internment camps.
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Tribes call on Pentagon to restore websites honoring Native American military service

The Spokesman-Review 20 Mar 2025
Navajo Code Talkers played a critical role supporting the Allies during World War II using the Navajo language to communicate over radio so that enemy spies could not decipher their messages.
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FSCJ professor: Does Russia-Ukraine policy signal renewed isolationism or new world order?

jacksonville.com 20 Mar 2025
The invasion demonstrated that “a democratic country in the turbulent world” (a ... Undoubtedly the recent developments have put to the test the global order that has evolved since the end of World War II.
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Trump is driving Asia to diversify away from US

Cryptopolitan 20 Mar 2025
Since the end of World War II in 1945, the US has arguably been the most dominant country in global trade, supported by the dollar as the world’s reserve currency ... “The post-World War II order has changed,” Hung added.
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Trump DEI orders foolishly erased Navajo Code Talkers from military websites | Opinion

The Tennessean 20 Mar 2025
Axios is reporting that articles and information about World War II’s heroic Native Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites ... World War II, particularly America's victory at Iwo Jima.
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World of Warships Naval History Review: Spring 2025

War History Online 20 Mar 2025
... the fearsome battleship HMS Warspite (03), the German destroyer flotilla was soundly defeated, thus cementing a vital victory for Allied morale in the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II.
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