Kathy

And this being my first time posting to BlueSky, my next thought is read the comment post from the bottom up (oldest to newest) for it to make sense.

Enola Gay Aircraft—And Other Historic Items—Inaccurately Targeted Under Pentagon’s Anti-DEI Purge References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word “gay.”

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War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts m...

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Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.

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Workers remove D.C. Black Lives Matter Plaza mural to avoid funding cuts Construction workers began removing Washington, D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza mural on Monday, after Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged to redesign the plaza in response to Republican threats to cut the city's transportation funding unless it was renamed.

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History of the Nisei ‘Go For Broke’ WWII unit removed from Army website The page's removal comes after President Trump's executive order ending what he called "radical" diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/14/h...

Well, sadly it seems some of my neighbors have made the choice to run those two steps back. I am sorry for them. And us. But fortunately, one way or the other, time moves forward and not backward, so they can run back but time will move on regardless.

Seems if the order of the day is to eliminate any trace of the diversity that made America the nation it is, or allow room for, and show the full context of this Nation in its true bloody, shameful, struggling, glorious, powerful history, as well as the promise of justice and freedom for the future?

Then we’d hear a lot of, “We are working on the logistics of executing that order as quickly as possible… blah… blah… blah…” and it would take them a few decades to come up with a plan to figure out how to begin to approach implementing it.

The string of actions goes on and on. If daily anal pap smears and prostate checks were required for EVERY male federal employee (DOD and all federal branches) I’d bet they’d slow their roll.

Maybe they could photoshop all the pictures of the plane and edit all the references in an update to tell us the plane was actually named, “Macho Man” to sooth their tiny, tiny, frighten, egos (among other things.)

The purge of anything **gasp** “gay” in the military, including pictures and information about the Enola Gay. Not the best chapter in American history, but scrubbing references to the Enola Gay? Freaking morons.

Arlington National Cemetery removing website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.

The Black Lives Matter Plaza mural destroyed after the DC mayor was held hostage over city funding by the federal government (to whom they pay taxes but have no representation i.e. “Taxation Without Representation”)

The history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team has been removed from the U.S. Army’s official website and the plaques dedicated to them at Schofield Barracks removed overnight.

Their personal insecurities, unquestioning willingness - and even glee - to follow orders is stunning.

It is truly amazing to me that it takes decades of work, pain and struggle to take one step forward, yet we have some many people in the federal government who are eager and chomping at the bit to run those two steps back.

In regard to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and this current administration

I have thoughts in my thread below.