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Maya Yang

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

A Black military member with a Medal of Honor.
Maj Gen Charles C Rogers. Photograph: US Department of Defense via Internet Archive

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”.

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