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

"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what ...

One of 27 Marines awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II, Justice left a four-generation legacy of service that is still going strong. Now a Marine ...

Native American veterans Ira Hayes and Lori Piestewa removed from Pentagon website following Trump's DEI ban, despite tribal ...

As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a "digital content refresh," many references on the Pentagon's website that honored Native Americans who used their ...

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

In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages ...

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

An archived version of the webpage showed that as recently as Feb. 18 it featured the famous Iwo Jima flag photograph ... raise the second flag on Mount Suribachi, Japan, Feb. 23, 1945.