The destruction of the Library of Alexandria some time before 650 AD (accounts vary) is universally cited as the greatest cultural outrage in history. Scholars will wonder what was lost until the end of time.
The role of the US in stopping a fascist takeover of the world in 1945 — no matter how one feels about the methods ultimately used — might have been an equal inflection point in human history. Tragically, some of the lesser fascists — along with their less vindictive, authoritarian fellow travelers — have been able to hide in the dark holes of their minds for 80 years, ready to emerge whenever the population might become sufficiently confused to restore them to power.
Now certain officials in the USA, believing in their own innate right to rule, are engaged in a pathetic attempt to belittle those who they believe have less value than their own self-exalted status. They are frantically trying to destroy evidence of anything that portraiys anyone or any event with whom or with which they do not personally identify as having played no meaningful role in the nation's history. Anyone who would have the country adopt a more honest view of its past and present unjust actions is also to be forgotten, along with anything that suggests the nation has ever strayed from the path of righteousness they ascribe only to themselves.
The salient example is the removal of photographs of the B-29 that carried the atomic bomb to Hiroshima in 1945. This is apparently due to the inconsequential fact that bomber pilot Paul Tibbets name the ship for his mother Enola GAY, and that's all it took for the insane Tr$mpian masters of purity to axe it.
In the case of the Pentagon documentation cited here, one notes that Tr$mp's musky DOGE fanboys are likely too focused on creating trippy algorithms to know the difference between adjectives like "gay" and surnames like "gay" — as in, "look, Bigballs, they're spelled the same, so they must be the same thing." All this would pathetically comical if it were not so destructive.
It remains to be seen whether light or darkness will prevail. One hopes that somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon are a few honest men and women who will remember the path to the past. One hopes that others will take up the cause, making their own copies of "disappeared" items and publishing them randomly hither and yon.
Among other topics, neither the Pentagon nor the White House has commented on any reports suggesting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is gay.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
