The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon ...

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...

The Pentagon's aggressive push to eliminate all content it views as being under the DEI umbrella has resulted in some notable ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

For the 80th Reunion of Honor, seven WWII veterans will return to Iwo Jima and be joined by defense secretaries from the US ...

Prominent Native American figures in U.S. military history have been erased from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website as ...

The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII. 80 years ago, the battle of Iwo Jima came to an end on 26 March 1945. After 36 days of fighting, nearly 7,000 US Marines had been killed and another 20,000 ...

The pages featured Navajo Code Talkers and the Marine from Arizona who helped plant the flag at Iwo Jima. Trump's DEI ban led ...

"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...

The Pentagon restored content on Jackie Robinson, the Navajo Code Talkers and others after their removal as DEI-related content sparked outrage.

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the “contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the ...