As many as 100,000 photos and online posts including a female Medal of Honor recipient, Black soldiers and people whose last name is ‘Gay’ may be axed in the diversity eradication ordered by Donald Trump
I just came back from a walk through a nearby, private cemetery. It’s a mix of old and new burials, some dating to the late 1800s. There are a lot of veterans interred there, and yes, some women veterans even! Probably some dark-skinned veterans too. There’s a section that contains many graves of Asians. I can’t read the writing on the stones but I’d guess Chinese - this was a railroad town back in the day and if I recall my HS history correctly, a lot of Chinese labor was used by the RR industry - yes, immigrants! This town still has a lot of Ukrainians and Russians and eastern Europeans, and the cemetery has a section that has a lot of their graves too.
I couldn’t help but wonder how long before all of the documentation of these people, scant as it may be (just stones), gets erased, flushed right down the Memory Hole. It’s a private cemetery but I’m sure there are ways the Musk administration could twist the arms of the board that runs the place. It sounds unthinkable, but until the last week or so, so did the idea of un-documenting a lot of US military history as the article describes.
I might add, this cemetery is about a quarter mile from a VA hospital too, one that’s already seeing cuts. Convenient, once the patients get kicked to the curb to die, they can be disposed of quickly and easily.
I just came back from a walk through a nearby, private cemetery. It’s a mix of old and new burials, some dating to the late 1800s. There are a lot of veterans interred there, and yes, some women veterans even! Probably some dark-skinned veterans too. There’s a section that contains many graves of Asians. I can’t read the writing on the stones but I’d guess Chinese - this was a railroad town back in the day and if I recall my HS history correctly, a lot of Chinese labor was used by the RR industry - yes, immigrants! This town still has a lot of Ukrainians and Russians and eastern Europeans, and the cemetery has a section that has a lot of their graves too.
I couldn’t help but wonder how long before all of the documentation of these people, scant as it may be (just stones), gets erased, flushed right down the Memory Hole. It’s a private cemetery but I’m sure there are ways the Musk administration could twist the arms of the board that runs the place. It sounds unthinkable, but until the last week or so, so did the idea of un-documenting a lot of US military history as the article describes.
I might add, this cemetery is about a quarter mile from a VA hospital too, one that’s already seeing cuts. Convenient, once the patients get kicked to the curb to die, they can be disposed of quickly and easily.