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I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

While I was getting ready to kind of wind down for the evening on June 4th, I was scrolling on my phone. Great thing to do for your mental health in the evening. I'm kidding. Try not to. I'm trying not to. But I was scrolling and saw a headline from the Washington Post that said, quote, Park Service orders removal of woke quotes at Boston's Bunker Hill Monument. So we've talked about interpretive material being removed from national parks and other federally managed properties for more than a year now,

after that restoring truth and sanity to American history executive order that came out in March of 2025.

So this headline was not really surprising.

But I had this initial reaction that was like, oh, another one.

And then as I read the article, it veered more toward confusion.

A visitor complaint had led to a quote about women's suffrage prompting a review, and then

that led to the order to take all of this other material down. And according to the article,

the quotes that were flagged to be removed

did not actually include the one about suffrage from the initial complaint, but it did include

one about the Vietnam War, one from a letter to the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator,

and one that was supportive of foreign-born citizens, so immigrants to the United States.

And then I was just confused because there was really no context in the article about why these

quotes were there. I'm not suggesting that they didn't belong there. It just didn't quite make

sense. There seemed to be no context. All of these quotes dated to 100 years or more

after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Only one of them seemed to reference it directly. An article in the

Boston Globe that I saw the next morning had some more context, and it actually had pictures of the

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