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Why is the Department of Defense using key words like black, first, and women to scrub the stories of historical people who served our country valiantly? I noticed that men or white were not on the list of key words! As the partner of a Marine, it pains me to see that the story of the very first black Marine was removed. It needs to go back along with all the other heroes that were removed because of this fake DEI movement. “Alfred Masters, after whom she( his daughter) is named, was sworn in to the Marine Corps in 1942 after he was "rejected from the Marines ... because they didn't think Blacks were good enough," Alfreda Masters said. After a chance encounter with a Marine recruiter in Oklahoma City who asked Masters if he'd like to become the first Black Marine, to which he said yes, Masters enlisted. He served in a segregated unit in World War II in Guam and the South Pacific, where he rose to the rank of technical sergeant.” ABC News