‘We can never forget’: the fight to restore displays of black US soldiers at a Dutch cemetery

Relatives fear removal is part of ‘same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge A white marble cross marks the final resting place of Julius W Morris, private first class in the US army, who died in April 1945. But at the cemetery where he lies in Margraten, a village in the south of the Netherlands, a new battle has begun over the quiet removal of two display panels about African American soldiers, like Morris. Continue reading...