DOD _removed_ Medal of Honor Monday page for Charles Calvin Rogers, highest-ranking black recipient. URL now "deimedal"

[highplainsdem]

Bluesky post from MSNBC columnist and Obama official Brandon Friedman:

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

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."

— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T02:25:33.389Z

Image of his post:

This is the Web Archive copy of the page from earlier this month:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250305165958/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

Note the second part of that URL, the DOD URL:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

Clicking on that now redirects you to a 404 - Page Not Found error notice with this new URL:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

[byronius]

1. Wow. That is an act of true lowness.

Committed by cowardly men who would never serve.

[JMCKUSICK]

2. That our Secretary of Defense would allow this,

much less support this is a irremovable stain on the US Military.

Cowardice in the US Military. Words impossible to contemplate only a few short years ago.

[pat_k]

8. The national shame and stain is that Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense.

I don't have the words to fully capture what I'm feeling. Raging, Tearful, Shame, Disgust, More Rage. Sick.

How can this fucking be.

They actually are out to erase all non-white accomplishments and fire all non-white people because they all must be DEI.

On Edit: I never could get my head around what it meant to purge DEI. I'm finally getting it.

Instead of embracing diversity they are actually out to enforce homogeneity

Instead of striving for equity in treatment they are out to enforce inequity

Instead of striving to ensure all Americans are included at all levels regardless of race or gender they are out to enforce exclusion of those who are not white or not biological males from whatever roles they deem they don't belong in.

Silly me. Should have caught on sooner.

[B.See]

31. Now you've got it, and welcome.

MAGA likes to call it "woke." I see it as AWAKENING to truths.

Especially the truths about THEM they don't want the rest of US to see.

[democrank]

3. Outrageous, unforgivable, sickening racism

against a Medal of Honor recipient!

King Donald Trump….FIVE deferments during the war in Vietnam. FIVE !

[DFW]

4. Further evidence to me of foreign infiltration at the highest level

No better way to demoralize an opponent’s military than to first sow deep division within it. Hegseth is doing Putin’s bidding. (As if Trump had the slightest idea what to do with a military in the first place)

[yardwork]

21. I'm sure some sniggering racist jerk was happy to comply.

[Demovictory9]

5. how low will they go?

[B.See]

32. as I keep saying,

NO low is TOO low for them.

[Godot51]

6. Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor?

Only white men need apply.

I know! Let's award donnie drumpf the Medal of Honor!

He won in in the Battle of Bonespur Ridge!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Trump risked unprotected sex during the 1968 Tit Offensive.

His Meddle of Honor should be displayed next to his Nobel Prize.

[Mtnmama]

7. Such a sad, sad day for our country.

I keep looking for some light at the end of the tunnel!

[TicketyBoo]

9. This may have been deleted because it was so old.

I haven't found another "Medal of Honor Monday" page that is that old (November 1, 2021).

Of course it was NOT a "DEI Medal." It was presented to him by President Richard Nixon, so a long time before "DEI" came on the scene.

[pat_k]

11. I doubt it.

The article opens with:

From the 1950's to the 1980's, a lot changed in America and abroad, and 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. But he's perhaps most well-known for his leadership during an intense battle in Vietnam, which earned him the Medal of Honor.

I think they are literally purging equality as a value from all writings of any kind.

"All men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence is probably on the chopping block. And I think equal shows up a few times in the constitution too.

[pat_k]

13. The first was 2/18/2019

Medal of Honor Monday: Army Lt. Col. Teddy Roosevelt
Feb. 18, 2019 | By Katie Lange
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/1756807/medal-of-honor-monday-army-lt-col-teddy-roosevelt/

There are about 30 pages worth of results going back to the first one as far as I can tell.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Medal+of+Honor+Monday%22+site:https://www.defense.gov

[TicketyBoo]

23. Okay, 32 pages

to be exact.

They are listed in order, most recent first at this link.

https://www.defense.gov/Search-Results/Tag/135176/

I went back, starting on Page 1, to Page 17 where the Nov. 1, 2021 listing for Charles Calvin Rogers should be. It's missing there, too. No rhyme or reason why. In those 17 pages I looked at, there were 8 black recipients listed and several hispanic and asian recipients. I guess maybe you could consider some of those "DEI" medals because some were awarded after an investigation in the '90s when it was determined that some worthy people had been denied the Medal of Honor because of racism, and medals were awarded at that point by President Clinton. But Rogers was presented the medal by Nixon, long before that. In no way was it "DEI."

It's just like a lot of other actions by DOGE. Dumb and unfathomable.

The very first "Medal of Honor Monday" listed is Army Pvt. Barney Hajiro, a Japanese-American, on Oct. 22, 2018.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/1668344/medal-of-honor-monday-army-pvt-barney-hajiro/

[pat_k]

24. I honestly think it was the content of the opening paragraph

...they flagged:

...As a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service...

And of course, it is all so random and messy. Probably some AI bot of Musk's crawling around and purging shit.

[haele]

46. Yup. They flagged via AI

That's why I very carefully looked at the words on the flag list and avoided anything that could possibly attract notice. Including the term Integration, which is in the name of one (Systems Integration) of the labs I use for my Program Management for my five bullets.

[Hugin]

10. This kind of s**t will be their undoing.

It proves that not only does the bigotry and corruption of the DoD go far deeper than the alcoholic rapist who somehow managed to top it off, it probably pre-dates him significantly.

[Emile]

12. They hate veterans, especially black heroes.

[pat_k]

14. How long before some of these pages are disappeared:

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion: the only all-Black Women's Army Corps
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=6888+postal+&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=defense.gov&as_occt=any&as_filetype=&tbs=

Keep on eye on pages related to Colin Powell

And media like this:
https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/24/2001329772/-1/-1/0/blacks_during_wwii.pdf

This isn't just about specific programs or trainings labeled DEI. They are purging diversity as a value, equality and equity as values, and inclusion and tolerance as values. They are attacking them as separate concepts. Hence, the directive to remove an "All Are Welcome" sign from a classroom. That is no longer an American value. The concept that All Are Welcome in our public schools is now a Political Opinion over which there is disagreement so it cannot be promoted (although the 10 commandments is fine, not a promotion of a specific religion by a public institution).

We are dealing with serious Christian Nationalists and White Supremists, homophobics, transphobics, and white men who have enormous contempt for women.

[Irish_Dem]

15. The goal is to humiliate, demoralize, destroy the US military.

[BoRaGard]

16. G.O.P. draft-dodger-in-chief Krasnov probably ordered this

The GOP draft dodgers think our American soliders are "suckers and losers."

Some sick GOP shit there.

[Tickle]

17. Why? I read his Bio, heart warming,

if I may say so. The other links were 404. I'm trying to understand why they did this. Let me rephrase , what lie did they tell in order to justify this atrocious act?

[Dennis Donovan]

19. I can confirm the webpage in question is still 404 with the offensive URL:

Fucking bastards...

[dalton99a]

33. +1

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Cowards.

Trump and his MAGA horde don’t have a clue about courage — or honor.

[Solly Mack]

22. White supremacy.

No one black or brown could have possibly achieved anything worth mentioning and if they are noticed it was only because someone promoted a black or brown person over a more deserving white man. Erase it.

Erasing black and brown people history again.

Same with women. None worth mentioning unless someone placed a lowly woman over a clearly superior white man. Erase it. Misogyny.

[Scrivener7]

26. Lots of black men voted for him. I hope this is what they wanted.

[Keepthesoulalive]

28. Please stop blaming black men for this mess

If white men voted as black men by percentages we would not be in this hellscape. There will always be uninformed people, but most black people voted for the most qualified candidate.

[Scrivener7]

29. I did not blame black men for this mess. I am pointing out that the black men who

voted for trump voted for people who hate them.

[B.See]

35. Precisely... as did

the percentages of other minorites who turned out in support of this bigot and sociopath.

And In some demographics, by a higher percentage than they did in 2020.

Which is, coming from this Black man, fkn UNFORGIVABLE (imo).

[Scrivener7]

36. This white woman looks around at my own demographic and sees the

worst moronic offenders of people voting for this man when this man has said he's going to crush them.

But this particular convo is about the wild disrespect toward Charles Calvin Rogers.

Heart breakingly shameful.

[B.See]

38. Agreed. And

it's only the beginning.

[Scrivener7]

40. It is. But there's something especially disgusting about suggesting this man

did not deserve his Medal of Honor.

I hate these people.

[B.See]

42. It most certainly is. Then again

it is precisely the same thing they are suggesting / implying about EVERY "not-a-white male" employee

occupying EVERY job these hateful fuks think belongs to THEM.

... a maliciously inspired, hate infused, deliberately DEMEANING supremacist lie, that suggests EVERY employee who is not a white male, and occupying one of "their" jobs, is INHERENTLY unqualified.

In essence, it's about as racist as these so-called 'not-racists' can get.

[Scrivener7]

43. Meanwhile, the ones saying it are friggin' mealy worms.

[B.See]

45. Yes, not to mention it's deliberate. Because

by inciting hate, division, racist nationalistic demagoguery such as 'poisoning the blood," victimhood, resentment, and phony fears of "being replaced"

Trump and his MAGA cohorts like Musk, gain license to empower THEMSELVES... via the pilfering of WEALTH, and via the dismantling of democracy, our checks and balances, our Constitution, and rule of law.

Under these smoke and mirrors, they get to DO and TAKE whatever they WANT.

[Keepthesoulalive]

37. It was an insignificant number

People constantly bring up this point as though it is relevant. Anyone can be fooled but let’s focus on the big picture 64%.

[Scrivener7]

39. This OP is about egregious disrespect toward a black man. No one is blaming black men for trump.

[Keepthesoulalive]

41. I am not saying you are

Most black people know bull droppings but a few don’t just as Hispanics and people from the Middle East were fooled by the influencers and propaganda. I don’t believe any of them voted for the degree of malice and hatred that the dominant culture did. Which is why I am attempting to show the difference.

[Solomon]

49. Thank you for doing what I'm sick and tired of doing. The so called avalanche of black male voters for Trump was indeed

insignificant. Yet people continually tout it as though this was the reason Trump won. I'm sick to death of it.

[Keepthesoulalive]

50. It's easier for them to point fingers at a

Small minority then to take on the real enablers of this catastrophe. I will continue to defend black men. This nonsense about how could they vote for orange maggot and to see white women vote against their children and grandchildren when it comes to control of their bodies and their health and barely a peep about them. I will continue to champion and defend black men in a country where they are disrespected and abused also called thugs . They don’t deserve blame for this, we know who does. The black community came together to vote for Vice President Harris, unfortunately we had very few allies.

[Wiz Imp]

54. Sac State professor's new study finds Black men did not move from Democratic Party to Trump

https://www.csus.edu/news/newsroom/stories/2025/2/black-voter-project.html

“If you want to answer the really tough questions about voter turnout and vote choice, enthusiasm and apathy, you need to have the data,” Towler said. “Using data for other groups that includes only a small sample of Black folks and then extrapolating those answers has a lot of problems.”

Such extrapolation led to talk among political pundits and the media about Black men moving away from the Democratic Party and voting for Trump. Towler’s survey, however, shows that wasn’t the case.

Support for Kamala Harris among Black men increased by 24% over time, the survey found, with 82% of Black men voting for Harris on Election Day. Support for Trump, however, dropped to 17%, matching 2020 exit polls.

Other findings include:

-Black support for Harris in 2024 was similar to that of Joe Biden in 2020, with 86% of Black voters choosing Harris compared to 12% for Trump.
-Most Black voters, 57%, voted in person.
-Black voters voted Democratic down the ballot, 72%, with 13% splitting the ticket.
-The majority of Black voters disapprove of mass deportation.

[alarimer]

27. These people are such fucking monsters

There is no depth to my hatred of them.

[surfered]

30. Disgusting. Major General Roberts stepped up because

our white draft dodging President refused to go and his Daddy got him a medical deferment.

[Passages]

34. Sick hateful people.

[Daleuhlmann]

44. How Low!

Last edited Tue Mar 18, 2025, 02:50 AM - Edit history (1)

What racist filth that is now running the DOD! There is no such thing as a "DEI" medal! Charles Rogers was a national hero that this country should continue to honor for his sacrifice and his service. His family should sue!

[Norrrm]

47. Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes

The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.

Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes

https://www.google.com/search?q=Visit+to+Arlington+Cemetery+reminded+Donald+Trump+Jr.+of+all+his+family%27s+%27sacrifices%2C%27&rlz=1C1AWUC_enUS1014US1023&oq=Visit+to+Arlington+Cemetery+reminded+Donald+Trump+Jr.+of+all+his+family%27s+%27sacrifices%2C%27&aqs=chrome..69i57.90554598j0j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[AZLD4Candidate]

48. It's back to normal now

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

DEI has been removed.

[LS0999]

51. These nazi incels with DOGE didn't earn a goddamn thing

They are nothing but a bunch of lowlife thugs, thieves and pirates that belong behind bars instead of running a fake "department"

[marble falls]

52. Fortunately this can be fixed quickly when we get our act together ...

... an ancestor of mine got the MoH for his participation and death in the 'The Great Raid' during the Civil War.

He was one of a bunch that lost it a few decades ago when Congress/DoD weeded out a lot of the first ones awarded.

[sakabatou]

53. When everyone in this administration dies, I want their souls to be banished to the lowest pits of hell.