While some Testificates and villagers did 'exist' in that quasi world called "beta" in September, they did not hit 'mainstream' until the release date for 1.0 in November!
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The ABMC said, “The panel was initially added upon request by the former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.”

Well... It seems that 80 years later, some are trying not only to FORGET, but to go a step further.... and ERASE!
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the footprints of courageous men like you are still found in our thriving economy, our stable government, and in our hearts and minds. Freedom sways in the wind while our flag flutters in peace. We will never forget."

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the Kingdom of the Netherlands express their sincere appreciation and gratitude for your sacrifice, courage, and willingness to fight for freedom while enduring the hardships of war," the embassy wrote in a certificate of appreciation presented to Baldwin. ". . . Seventy-five years later,
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the cemetery had been constructed by Black Americans under difficult conditions, beginning in late 1944.”

In 2020 the Embassy of the Netherlands honored CPL James w. Baldwin and hundreds of black soldiers as part of its commemoration of the 75th anniversary of liberation. "The citizens of
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a history professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, was among the first to draw attention to the displays’ removal in Dutch media, telling The Guardian, “I grew up in South Limburg but it was not until much later that I learned that
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[the Office of Personnel Management].” Priscilla Rayson, ABMC’s chief diversity officer, was placed on administrative leave shortly thereafter.

Kees Ribbens, a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and
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fully compliant with the president’s executive order,” wrote its chief of public affairs to Heritage. “ABMC does not have a stand-alone DEI office or any DEI contracts.

ABMC’s chief diversity officer has been placed on administrative leave, pending additional guidance from OPM
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terminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives across the federal government.

The same month the panels were removed, The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, contacted the ABMC for its supposed failure to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI initiatives.

“ABMC is
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from Military Times. The commission, however, told Dutch news outlets that one panel is “off display, though not out of rotation,” although a second panel was “retired.”

The panels were reportedly rotated out in early March, one month after President Donald Trump’s executive order
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U.S. government agency that oversees the cemetery, received criticism from families and historians for not including the contributions of Black service members and their experiences fighting in the Netherlands.

At the time of publishing, ABMC did not respond to requests for comment
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Pruitt, a Black soldier in the 43rd Signal Construction Battalion who drowned a month after the war’s end while attempting to save a comrade’s life in a German river.

The two panels were added to the visitor center in September 2024 after the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a
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Black American soldiers during WWII, sparking outrage from Dutch and American citizens.

One of the two displays featured an overall history of Black American military personnel fighting a double V campaign — victory at home and abroad — while the other told the story of George H.
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