ALEXANDRIA, Ohio (WCMH) – The United States Department of Defense removed thousands of news articles and other content earlier this month. The removal of articles was part of the DEI purge set in motion by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Records of Jackie Robinson’s service during World War II and the Navajo Code Talkers who were integral in winning the war were just two examples of articles removed from the website.
The impact of that decision was felt in Ohio by Michele Adkins, whose father Allen Pratt served in the Marines alongside the Code Talkers in the Pacific during World War II. Adkins recalled her father, who died in 2010, never really talked a lot about his time in the Marines…