Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry; The Guardian, March 17, 2025

Maya Yang, The Guardian; Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry

[Kip Currier: Speaking out against injustice can work: The Department of Defense has restored the webpage honoring Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers and has removed the pejorative "DEImedal" label that had been added to the webpage, after enough people apparently called out Pete Hegseth et al.

• How many other people like Maj. Gen Rogers, though, are being "disappeared" and made invisible? 
• Whose histories and struggles and achievements are being purged from historical records?
• How many other websites are being removed?

Recent examples tell us that that number is likely to be many, many people. For example, only after a similar outcry when the U.S. Air Force removed a video about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women's Airfare Service Pilots (WASPs) from a military training course "after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping order barring DEI programs from the federal government and military", did the Air Force reinstate the materials about the Airmen and WASPs.

The take-away: we need people to continue to raise the alarm when instances are spotted like those above.

And we need to then spread the word quickly and demand that such purges be remedied and the original information restored.

History is NOT the possession of one group or movement.

History -- accurate, genuine, unexpurgated, accessible history -- is the collective birthright and legacy of all the American people and peoples of the world.

Censoring or eliminating the story of one person diminishes the entire chronicle of humanity.]

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"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."