Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters 'DEI' added to website address
A Trump two-fer! Crapping on the men and women who have served the nation, and crapping on nie-blanks . (Gotta get used to Afrikans, because Elon...)
Are those many Black/Brown/Yellow Americans who voted for Donald Trump nervous?
There are links in the seed.
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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.
Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has moved his administration to roll back DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - efforts across the federal government.
One executive order sought to terminate all "mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities in the federal government", which the Trump administration deems "illegal DEI and 'diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility' (DEIA) programs".
In a win for the Trump administration on Friday, an appeals court lifted a block on executive orders that seek to end the federal government's support for DEI programs.
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"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."
This is the operative sentence. He dared to call out racial inequalities in the military, so now his personal heroism must be banished from sight. Folks, these people are evil.
Neither does Peter Connor, on saint Patrick’s day no less.
meh, wait to you see what happens to revenge and retribution loving maga veterans in just a few years ...
And like every other time the left has been outraged by something in the military, like removing the Tuskegee from the training at an airbase it will turn out to be some virtual signaling jackass who is pissed he can't wear his dress to work anymore, this is obvious if you aren't an idiot by the simple fact of what the name of the URL was changed too.
And look it's back already.
Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers > U.S. Department of Defense > Story
... and we know that the Musk administration never flip-flops...
You can read the url for yourself. Here ya go:
They also removed the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen, and so many other heroes of war based on "DEI" nonsense.
These veterans served their country with bravery, honor and distinction and we should all fight to remember their sacrifices and service.
Republicans won't stand up against this onslaught against our history and our veterans. Just let king Trump tear it all down.
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Indefensible…and yet, by george…
it's political payback to the maga klan faction ...
It's impossible to interpret these "redactions" as anything other than willful insults to both the armed services and non-Whites and women.
www.axios.com /local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Erin Alberty 6-7 minutes 3/17/2025
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
A two-man team of Navajo code talkers attached to a Marine regiment in the Pacific relay orders over the field radio using their native language. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images
Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled " DEI ."
Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Driving the news: Axios identified at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers that had disappeared from the U.S. Army and Department of Defense websites as of Monday.
How it works: The Defense department's URLs were amended with the letters DEI, suggesting they were removed following President Trump's executive order ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The other side: Asked about the missing pages, Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot replied in a statement: "As Secretary [Pete] Hegseth has said , DEI is dead at the Defense Department. ... We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms."
Catch up quick: In both World Wars, the military deployed units that used Indigenous American languages to secretly transmit information in pivotal battles.
Zoom in: The Navajo Code Talkers rapidly and meticulously shared hundreds of messages in the complex Diné language — often during intense battles, making them exemplars of courage under fire.
They likely saved countless American and Allied lives by using languages the U.S. government had tried for generations to eliminate .
Stunning stat: Indigenous Americans have enlisted in the U.S. military at a rate five times the national average, per Trump's own proclamation in 2018.
Zoom out: Axios found other removed pages about Indigenous Americans' contributions, including:
Caveat: As of Monday, the U.S. Marines — the branch that deployed the Navajo Code Talkers — had not removed its pages about them.
The latest: Axios in recent days found the DOD had given similar "DEI" labels to now-broken pages that honored:
Meanwhile, the Army removed pages honoring:
The big picture: The military has faced recent complaints over removed pages.
Case in point: A profile of Army Major Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black recipient of the Medal of Honor, vanished when the word "medal" was changed to " deimedal " in the URL.
They are sick bastards.
There people are not proper Americans, They must be sent back to where they came from!
Oh, wait....
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