What you need to know. "You don't just start jerking things away from people, without even examining them, letting them know," he said.

The Pentagon ordered a digital refresh to remove content featuring DEI, which has led to the removal in some cases of pages recognizing significant figures in the U.S. military's history.

The article on the Pentagon's website, headlined Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier, could still be read on the Internet Archive website while it was removed. It provides details about Robinson's childhood and life before he was drafted into the Army during World War II in 1942.