- The Army may be caught in a wave of efforts to atone for past systemic racism in the United States, exemplified in the plans to scrub Confederate references from Army sites, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- However, a recent move to correct service records and grant clemency to more than 100 black soldiers charged in a 1917 riot was justified and likely not driven by an effort to rewrite history.
- “Is this based on evidence that was presented to the Board of Corrections that showed discrimination, or is this a further attempt to rewrite history and ignore something that was a historical fact that historically happened? I think those are great questions to ask,” military attorney Davis Younts told the DCNF.
The U.S. Army may not have set out to rewrite its history of race relations, but recent changes to memorials, base names and service records suggest it has been…
