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Monday, March 17, 2025

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from DOD website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters DEI' added to website address.

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More: On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers's Medal of Honor webpage led to a "404" error message. The URL was also changed, with the word "medal" changed to "deimedal".

Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.

According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers's remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge.

As of Sunday afternoon, a "404 " Page Not Found" message appeared on the defense department's webpage for Rogers, along with the message: "The page you are looking for might have been moved, renamed, or may be temporarily unavailable."

A screenshot posted by the writer Brandon Friedman on Bluesky on Saturday evening showed the Google preview of an entry of Rogers's profile on the defense department's website.

Dated 1 November 2021, the entry's Google preview reads: "Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers." Below it are the words: "Army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers served through all of it. As a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service."

"Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include DEI medal,'" Friedman wrote.

The Guardian has asked the defense department for comment.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-03-17 09:26 AM

Wow.
This nation is sick.

#2 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-17 09:32 AM

The US is most definitely a sick country and society, Yav. Luckily, the Dotard can't touch this: www.cmohs.org

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-17 09:36 AM

Thank you for that link, Coriolanus!
And to drive that home, and to remember Lt. Col. Rogers, I'm posting this:
Lt. Col. Rogers

#4 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-17 09:42 AM

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters DEI' added to website address.

Hair Furor's position appears to be that no black person ever earned their honors. That almost seems racist.

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-17 09:43 AM

He was Major General Rogers when he retired.

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-03-17 09:48 AM

Thanks, Yav, that's a man's man. And that combat action was just days before the pivotal election when George Wallace won nearly ten million white racist votes back home. What a country MG Rogers almost died for.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-17 09:53 AM

That almost seems racist.
#5 | Posted by censored

That's what I've been thinking about all this. Is it the administration's position that no women or person of color ever came by their honors honestly? That every accomplishment achieved by them is only because of DEI?

#8 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-03-17 09:22 PM

The racist------------- blinked again.

www.npr.org

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-17 09:25 PM

#9 - A bit of good news - but damn! Does everything have to be challenged to correct these ongoing wrongs?

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-17 10:36 PM

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