Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Guardian

The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.

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.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran

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General Discussion thread posted last night: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220144466

[Bayard]

1. Stupid Incorporated

[forgotmylogin]

12. "DEI" has been appropriated as the "TV-safe" rightwing racial or social slur.

Whenever they say "DEI" or especially "DEI-hire" it's placeholder for a bigoted term. I hope someone on mainstream media will call that out at some point.

Nobody shits on language like the right wingers.

[LiberalArkie]

13. If the person could not have had that position in the 1940's, then they should not have it now. MAGA

Non-white male. Janitorial only
white Woman. receptionist, clerical pool, nurse, airline stewardess
non-white women. Cooks, cleaners, maids

[NotHardly]

26. They are truly disgusting behavior by Muskovites.

[3auld6phart]

28. This

Is digusting beyond belief.. You filkthy fuckin’ cowardly tr republicans… May all you puke freaks die as low painful demise. I am so gawd damn mad you freaks deserve nothing but an early f***kin ‘ death. Bar me I no longer give a shi.pt….

[chouchou]

44. I understand. Empathy can make one scream for justice !

[kacekwl]

52. Agree

wholeheartedly.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. How long before

They remove this hero's remains from Arlington Cemetery?

[dem4decades]

5. Trump may remove everyone from Arlington if he could develop the property.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. That tracks

Totally on brand.

[IronLionZion]

21. He'll turn the cemetary into a golf course or something

like Trump Gaza beach resort

[SeattleVet]

23. They'll probably push to restore the property to Robert E. Lee's descendants as 'reparations'.

[soldierant]

30. Lee certainly was on the weong side

but I'm not sure it would be possible to find a descendant of his who would accept the property.

[OldBaldy1701E]

39. I happen to know some of the descendants, and they do not want it. (n/t)

[Karadeniz]

3. Speechless....appalling....

[Norrrm]

4. 1+

[Hekate]

6. KnR

[BOSSHOG]

8. I think it's fair to say MAGA Voted for that

MGEN Rogers was wounded three times in NAM, Trumps Dad bought him a deferment. Musk left South Africa at 17 to avoid mandatory military duty. Who do you admire? Who do you detest?

[Hotler]

50. The orange convict is a reflection of his voters. Their hate, cruelty, racism, vengence, selfishness are

manifested through him.

[brush]

9. Up next: re-segregating the military. nt

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[sakabatou]

16. And forcing out women from duty.

[MsSalvia]

20. Most RNs are female !

The military doesn't need nurses? Or maybe they will draft male nurses-

[mountain grammy]

24. EO 9981, 7/26/1948

Truman integrated the military. My dad was a Marine, I was 7 months old. Dad said it was his proudest day as a Marine. We used to have the headline framed. Don't know what happened to it.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

10. How long

Before Hegseth gets fragged?

[Attilatheblond]

29. Oooo, now there's a memory jogging blast from the past

Sadly, it would trigger a martial law crack down and result in a lot of innocent people getting rounded up & hurt

[GiqueCee]

36. He is a psychotic racist Nazi...

... and incorrigible drunk. He'll probably drink himself to death. But if not, then have at it. May I recommend the Barrett M82A1?

For the terminally obtuse

[MsSalvia]

49. Pickled Pete

has the brain of a drowned tequila worm.

[Shipwack]

40. He'd have to be in the vicinity of a combat zone, first.

Not gonna happen.

He's a REMF, through and through.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. The Trump Administration just removed his story from the DOD website as a part of its anti-DEI efforts.

Link to tweet

[Attilatheblond]

31. People who served piss Trump off, thus the damage being done to our Veterans.

People who served with extreme distinction REALLY piss him off. Throw in the race thing and he wants a lot of heroes erased from history because he knows he is a lily livered COWARD.

[sakabatou]

15. UGH!

[TNNurse]

17. Go to the Arlington Cemetery website

and search for significant women, African Americans and LGBTQ people. They simply are not listed. Try Ruth Ginsburg, try Colin Powell, try others. These assholes are so threatened by competent women, Black people , Hispanics or LGBTQ. They are so weak and petty.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. how long has he been in office?? The racism is full on. No pretense anymore. Full nazi.

[Aviation Pro]

19. I met MG Rogers in 1982 at an AUSA conference

He was gracious to a fault and though he was physically short, he was a giant of a man.

Go fuck yourself, Hegseth, you tabless beeyotch.

[Mblaze]

22. Here are the details of his heroism

https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/charles-c-rogers

[lapfog_1]

27. I have no words for the disrespect

While directing the position defense, Lt. Col. Rogers was seriously wounded by fragments from a heavy mortar round which exploded on the parapet of the gun position. Although too severely wounded to physically lead the defenders, Lt. Col. Rogers continued to give encouragement and direction to his men in the defeating and repelling of the enemy attack. Lt. Col. Rogers' dauntless courage and heroism inspired the defenders of the fire support base to the heights of valor to defeat a determined and numerically superior enemy force.

Awarded Posthumously: No
Presentation Date & Details: May 14, 1970
The White House, presented by Pres. Richard M. Nixon
Born: September 6, 1929, Claremont, Fayette County, WV, United States
Died: September 21, 1990, Munich, Germany
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery (MH) (7-A-99), Arlington, VA, United States

[wordstroken]

32. Thank you so much for posting that link, Mblaze.

[Mblaze]

35. I like to honor heroes. 😀

[wordstroken]

38. I hear you. Indeed, Major General Charles Rogers was a hero.

[edhopper]

25. The GOP veterans in Congress will surely push back on this

I am kidding, they will attack anyone who defends this man.

[hadEnuf]

33. This has nothing to do with DEI and everything to do with the White Supremacy movement.

DEI is the credit card for the Trump administration to practice open racism.

[Joinfortmill]

34. These people are despicable. RESIST!

[GiqueCee]

37. The most corrupt president in American history...

... is one of the vilest pieces of racist dog shit ever defecated, and a sniveling coward.

[leanforward]

41. May the person who . . .

directed this and those political appointees stumble on some long stairs for doing this to a man of honor. OR
may they spend their last living days in isolation.

[Staph]

42. I've passed this information to the West Virginia Gazette, the biggest paper in the state.

The newspaper was once reliably Democratic, until they combined with the afternoon, conservative paper. They are now a bit schizophrenic! They won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for their coverage of the opioid crisis. I think that they will jump on this with both feet, despite the Republican bent of the state.

West Virginians love their military heroes. They named a bridge over the New River Gorge for Rogers. This story will no go well here.

[LymphocyteLover]

43. just incredibly despicable... fucking Nazis

[dsharp88]

45. Grotesquely evil

And criminally pathetic

[area51]

46. So angering.

[AverageOldGuy]

47. Read all about him

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on General Rogers with details of how he received the MOH (Medal of Honor, NOT "Congressional Medal of Honor&quot .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Calvin_Rogers


I was in Vietnam at the same time as an artillery forward observer in the same area as the action for which Rogers received the MOH. We were in deep shit day in and day out and his battalion was in even deeper shit.

And now we have an alcoholic, skirt-chasing DUI hire piece of shit Pete Hogsbreath a National Guard major as Secretary of Defense and a draft dodging lying, demented human turd as president and co-president. And for this I served 30 years in the Army and got my ass shot three times. Fuck them all.

[AverageOldGuy]

48. They also removed Rocky Versace because he is Puerto Rican

It's late. Wife and I are in our 80's. We just moved from our custom-built 3500 sq ft house on 5 acres in rural Virginia into an 1100 sq ft apartment in Northern Virginia. We moved ourselves with our children and grandchildren's help and we are exhausted. It's late, Sweet Thing (we have been married 58 years) requires 24/7 care and I'm the caregiver. It's late and I've had a couple of powerful Jack and Coke.

And now this: Trump and SECDEF Hogsbreath just removed Rocky Versace from the DoD website because he was DEI foreigner. FUCK THEM EVERYONE.

Here are the details about Rocky: https://www.ikn.army.mil/apps/MIHOF/biographies/Versace,%20Humbert.pdf

SECDEF Hogsbreath talks about being a "warrior." Hogsbreath is not qualified to wash Rocky Versace's jockstrap. Hogsbreath wouldn't know a warrior if he fell over one in a drunken stupor. "Warrior" my baggy 80-yr-old ass. My son is a former Special Forces sergeant who lost his left arm in Iraq -- he's a warrior and a nice, polite, genteel, quiet man. I'm a veteran of 30 years in the Army with two tours in Vietnam and the fucking bullet wounds to prove it. And the SECDEF is an alcoholic REMF NG Major.

I'm going to DC for the April 5 demonstration. I'll be carrying a big sign reading "WE CAME UNARMED. THIS TIME." And I fucking mean it.

[Hotler]

51. MSN website had the same story. They turned off the comments. Must be afraid of the comments from

left.

[republianmushroom]

53. The SHAME of this is unforgiven.

[malthaussen]

54. Next step will be to simply revoke all the decorations.

Think they wouldn't do that? Prove it.

-- Mal