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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

dailykos.comMissing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery WebsiteWhen visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Yep - bsky.app/profile/fain...

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

No, this isn’t about the grave finder on the Arlington National Cemetery website, which still works. it’s about other materials that *used* to be on the website that described and highlighted women and non-white veterans - and have now been deleted, while materials about white male veterans remain.

It's a Pip!
@nopipbutcpip.bsky.social

To be fair, pulling them out of THAT would have been more difficult. We didn't record sexes of any of the interned; it wasn't marked on the paper records either. You'd have to go through and make a determination based on their names.

Chronin
@chronin.bsky.social

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you are or have data boarder friends, NOW is the time to grab literally everything in federal databases you possibly can, for restoration later.