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cbabe

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Wed Mar 19, 2025, 11:56 AM Mar 19

Medgar Evers erased: Trump once hailed WWII vet Medgar Evers as a 'great American hero.'

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/wwii-vet-medgar-evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/

Trump once hailed WWII vet Medgar Evers as a ‘great American hero.’ Now the U.S. Army has erased him from a section on the Arlington National Cemetery website
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by Jerry Mitchell
March 17, 2025

World War II veteran Medgar Evers, whom President Trump called “a great American hero,” has been erased from the Arlington National Cemetery website, which featured a section honoring Black Americans who fought in the nation’s wars.

The U.S. Army purged the section that had lauded the late Army sergeant and civil rights leader, who was assassinated by a white supremacist in Jackson in 1963. The decision to erase Evers came after an executive order by Trump to eliminate all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programs.

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Medgar Evers erased: Trump once hailed WWII vet Medgar Evers as a 'great American hero.' (Original Post) cbabe Mar 19 OP
Medgar Evers will always be a hero, something the traitor Donald Trump will never be. Kid Berwyn Mar 19 #1
Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish Norrrm Mar 19 #2
This act by the DOD is disgusting LetMyPeopleVote Mar 19 #3

Kid Berwyn

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1. Medgar Evers will always be a hero, something the traitor Donald Trump will never be.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 11:59 AM
Mar 19

Dip said same thing about Navajo Marines: The Code Talkers. And used the opportunity to call Elizabeth Warren, "Pocahantas."

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566783261/trump-brings-up-pocahontas-at-event-honoring-navajo-code-talkers

Traitor Trump is a no good MF.

Norrrm

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2. Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 12:20 PM
Mar 19

Trump Mocks Warren’s Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish

Trumps falsely claimed their family Was Swedish when it was inconvenient to be German.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-mocks-warrens-native-american-heritage-claim-but-false?utm_term=.hrN5grRZ6#.nn8b1XG0m


http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/fred-c-trump-postwar-master-builder-of-housing-for-middle-class-dies-at-93.html

Donald needs to start using his REAL family last name, Drumpf.

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