Did Trump Admin Remove Panels Honoring Fallen Black US Soldiers in the Netherlands? What We Know

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The province of Limburg is calling on the US ambassador to the Netherlands to reinstall two information panels about the role of Black soldiers in the visitors' center of the American Cemetery in Margraten. NRC reported last weekend that the two panels about Black liberators had been removed by the cemetery's administrator, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). The cemetery in Margraten was given to the US by the Dutch state on perpet…

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The administrator of the American Cemetery in Margraten must give the stories of Black American soldiers a permanent place in the cemetery's visitors center. Mayor Alain Krijnen of the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten made this appeal Monday afternoon, a few days after NRC reported that two information panels about African-American soldiers had been removed without explanation.