Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website
Source: The Guardian
The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the countrys highest military decoration has been removed and the letters DEI added to the sites address.
On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogerss 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, Rogerss 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
General Discussion thread posted last night: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220144466
Bayard
(28,624 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,942 posts)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
(19,321 posts)Non-white male. Janitorial only
white Woman. receptionist, clerical pool, nurse, airline stewardess
non-white women. Cooks, cleaners, maids
NotHardly
(2,632 posts)3auld6phart
(1,670 posts)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
(2,812 posts)kacekwl
(8,886 posts)wholeheartedly.
JustAnotherGen
(37,587 posts)They remove this hero's remains from Arlington Cemetery?
dem4decades
(13,694 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,587 posts)Totally on brand.
IronLionZion
(50,830 posts)like Trump Gaza beach resort
SeattleVet
(5,833 posts)soldierant
(9,287 posts)but I'm not sure it would be possible to find a descendant of his who would accept the property.
OldBaldy1701E
(10,204 posts)Karadeniz
(24,725 posts)Norrrm
(4,032 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)Response to highplainsdem (Original post)
GETTINGTIRED This message was self-deleted by its author.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)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
(13,737 posts)manifested through him.
brush
(61,033 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 17, 2025, 08:15 AM - Edit history (1)
sakabatou
(45,782 posts)MsSalvia
(18 posts)The military doesn't need nurses? Or maybe they will draft male nurses-
mountain grammy
(28,687 posts)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
(1,083 posts)Before Hegseth gets fragged?
Attilatheblond
(8,311 posts)Sadly, it would trigger a martial law crack down and result in a lot of innocent people getting rounded up & hurt
GiqueCee
(3,422 posts)... 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
(18 posts)has the brain of a drowned tequila worm.
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,025 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,311 posts)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
(45,782 posts)TNNurse
(7,494 posts)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
(21,506 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,255 posts)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
(924 posts)lapfog_1
(31,676 posts)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
(1,405 posts)Mblaze
(924 posts)wordstroken
(1,405 posts)edhopper
(37,094 posts)I am kidding, they will attack anyone who defends this man.
hadEnuf
(3,527 posts)DEI is the credit card for the Trump administration to practice open racism.
Joinfortmill
(20,105 posts)GiqueCee
(3,422 posts)... is one of the vilest pieces of racist dog shit ever defecated, and a sniveling coward.
leanforward
(1,129 posts)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
(6,453 posts)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
(9,382 posts)dsharp88
(525 posts)And criminally pathetic
area51
(12,572 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,364 posts)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"
.
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
(3,364 posts)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
(13,737 posts)left.
republianmushroom
(22,123 posts)malthaussen
(18,404 posts)Think they wouldn't do that? Prove it.
-- Mal
