Pentagon restores webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner but defends DEI purge

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Source: The Guardian

Pentagon restores webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner but defends DEI purge

Error message previously shown on Maj Gen Rogers’s site as officials argue that it’s wrong to call diversity a strength

Maya Yang
Tue 18 Mar 2025 02.23 GMT
First published on Mon 17 Mar 2025 17.34 GMT

The US defense department webpage celebrating a Black Medal of Honor recipient that was removed and had the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address has been restored – and the letters scrubbed – after an outcry. But defense department officials have continued to argue publicly that it is wrong to say that diversity is a strength, and that it’s essential to dismantle all “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts.

On Saturday, the Guardian reported that US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message – and that the URL had been changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.

Rogers, who died in 1990, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base. Then president Richard Nixon awarded him the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military honor, in 1970, making him the highest-ranking African American to receive it, according to the West Virginia military hall of fame.

On Saturday the web page honoring him was no longer functional, with a “404 – Page Not Found” message appearing along with the note: “The page you are looking for might have been moved, renamed, or may be temporarily unavailable.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/defense-department-black-medal-honor-webpage-restored

[marble falls]

1. Every time they get push back, they back step every time. We need to push back harder.

[Skittles]

2. those sick fucks have to be shamed into doing the right thing

UGH