For nearly two years, those who paused before the 8,301 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule encountered a commemorative panel honoring the Black military personnel buried in the American Cemetery in Margraten who fought for freedom abroad while being denied it at home. Until it was quietly removed, almost certainly as part of the Trump administration effort to cleanse American history from conflict and negativism and to play down the separate contributions of minorities.

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