Column: In the Netherlands, Black U.S. soldiers’ history is being erased

Column: In the Netherlands, Black U.S. soldiers’ history is being erased

The attempted erasure of Black history within the U.S. military has gotten itself into a quagmire of resistance in a land far away and a time long ago, back to the days of Jim Crow. In 2024, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and the people of the Limburg province of the Netherlands came together in the creation of commemorative panels of the role of World War II Black soldiers in the liberation of Limburg in late 1944, and the buil…