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A Black Hero's History Erased and Restored by anti-DEI Bigots [1]
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Date: 2025-03-17
The Guardian spotted this first. Everything they said in their story was true yesterday. I verified it. The culprits have now covered their tracks.
Here's the Bluesky user's post that got them started. Following this Google search listing is what got this all started:
Even his Wikipedia page has now been updated with the controversy.
You can read about Charles at many spots on the internet, starting with Wikipedia. Then there's the West Virginia Military Hall of Fame. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society. And many more.
Where you didn't find him is at the Defense Department where you were redirected to a new page that gave you an Error 404, or at least it did.
Yesterday, when the Guardian reported it, the URL of the redirected page had deimedal in it. They had not only erased the page, which is bad enough, but made the URL an insult.
The current URL.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
While I was re-editing this, they put the original page back up. It now shows:
Now, that part of the URL has been changed back to just medal, instead of deimedal.
Even if you try using the deimedal in the URL now, it doesn't give you an Error 404, and takes you to the correct page. They should have left it as an Error 404, because the redirect is also a sign of their meddling.
Today's Monday Medal of Honor Winner is Army Spc. 4th Class Edward DeVore Jr.
Here's one from Jan. 20th.
The Medal of Honor Winner seems to change on a Monday. I found still more with different dates on them. Calvin Roger's has Nov. 1, 2021 on it. Finding the link source is hard. There doesn't seem to be a central page for them.
Found it. It's the News Features Stories page. Today you'll see Edward DeVore Jr. I linked above. Scroll down to March 10th and you'll see Air Force Col. Bernard Fisher.
The Army has a home page for their recipients. But it's on army.mil, not defense.gov. Roger's is listed, but without his own page.
Apparently who ever made the change, or it was spotted for them, got it fixed to eliminate the controversy. But, there is still the fact that Roger's page had been removed.
He served from 1952 to 1984 in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The medal is for Vietnam. You can read the citation on Wikipedia.
DEI didn't exist in the Vietnam War. You didn't get anything without paying for it in blood.
Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act, and Executive Order 11246 which required government employers to hire without discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin. So, maybe that was the start of diversity, equity, and inclusion. But that don't mean sh*t on the battlefield.
Whatever sick mind was behind both the erasure and the insult needs to be identified and fired.
They've covered their tracks, but the evidence was captured.
They were caught in the act by the Bluesky user and The Guardian.
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