On Facebook, Black Liberators in the Netherlands posted pictures of panels the Heritage Foundation reportedly pressed the Trump administration to have removed from the American cemetery in Margraten.

Black soldiers who volunteered for combat duty as riflemen are among the dead buried there.

"Equal opportunity of service and of recreation are the right of every American soldier regardless of branch, race, color or creed." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1 March 1944

Let's travel back further to March 6, 1942. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs was debating an armed forces reorg. Committee member Truman argued, "If we could just get the War Department and the Navy Department on speaking terms..., I don't think that we will ever have another Pearl Harbor."

A letter I received from my GOP rep. here in SW VA in response to my pleading that he do something to stop the evisceration of our fed. gov't, incl. the @altnehgov.bsky.social.

He criticizes Congress for ceding too much power in the past to the Executive branch. Those days are OVER!

But ... not.

With this rapturous ending...

A reminder of the way things used to be in the before times...

I'm currently teaching two WWII classes, one on the battle over Jim Crow, the focus of my current research.

The once-hallowed legacy of the men and women who served, suffered, and died in that global conflagration is being absolutely eviscerated before our very eyes.

What a shameful week.

This was part of my weekend reading. There's so much to learn still about transnational interwar fascism.