According to Newsweek, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) confirmed that a display featuring Private George H. Pruitt, a New Jersey-born engineer who died in 1945 rescuing a fellow soldier, has been “temporarily taken off display, though not out of rotation” at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. A second panel describing the U.S. military’s segregation during the war has been permanently retired.

Four of the cemetery’s 15 panels “currently feature African American service members buried at the cemetery,” the ABMC said. However, journalists visiting the Netherlands American Cemetery reported that those panels weren’t visible.

Raphael Morris, the nephew of late soldier Julius Morris, said he believes the removal stemmed from racism.

“I think it’s all about race,”

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