from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday,

March 17th. I was thinking about the Trump administration's ban and erasure of things that they see as DEI. So, for example,

Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth directive that no military facility observe Black History Month,

Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, people with disabilities, another observance, and things like that. So I wondered,

does that extend to St. Patrick's Day as well? Or is it only women and people of color

and people with disabilities whose observances are getting canceled? So I did some Googling,

and I came up with a few interesting things. At West Point, where Black and Women's History Month events had been

canceled this year in cadet affinity groups order to disband, here was a page promoting a St. Patrick's Day

event at a West Point eatery called the First Class Club,

affectionately known around there, I gather, as the Firsty Club.

From what I saw on this page, the Firsty Club is an official function of the Directorate of Cadet Affairs at West Point.

So those other identity group celebrations are out.

St. Patrick's Day and official Irishness apparently still in. The flyer includes the language first class club, don't miss out on the luck of the Irish. And the special that they're offering

includes green beer pints and bangers and mash and other Irish. And the special that they're offering includes green beer pints and bangers and mash

and other Irish things like that. Another one from another local facility, Joint Base, McGuire, Dix,

Lakehurst in New Jersey, where by the way my father once served proudly back when it was just

called Fort Dix.

He said they could have deployed me overseas. Instead, they deployed me to New Jersey.

Hi, Dad. Join base, McGuire, Dix, Lakehurst, according to one of their web pages, set up for this year a St. Patrick's Day, Rock the House Bash. One more. Fort Eisenhower down in Georgia.

It's called the St. Patrick's Day ride. It's horseback riding. Their Eisenhower.org

Army site has horses and shamrock images and says, look for that pot of gold at the end of the

rainbow on horseback,

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