Diversity programs
Pentagon deletes website via black war heroes
Charles Calvin Rogers acquired merit in the Vietnam War. However, the African American’s memory has disappeared from the Pentagon side-probably because of a Trump arrangement.
Charles Calvin Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1970, the highest military award of the US government. The Major General of the US Army was the high -ranking black man, who has so far received this honor.
So far, a Pentagon website has informed Rogers’ military services. But now this is no longer found, the address results in an error message. Apparently, as a result of President Donald Trump’s instruction, the site was deleted by the US Department of Defense to terminate all diversity programs in state institutions.
Donald Trump is the opponent of diversity programs
This speaks for this, a note that the address that once led to the website over the Black War Elder now contains. The abbreviation was inserted using the online tool with which deleted websites can be reconstructed. This stands for diversity (diversity), equity (fairness) and inclusion (inclusion)-the programs of the US government with which people of different origins, genders or people with trauma or disability are to be more integrated.
Trump has been an opponent of these measures for a long time. After taking office, the US President gave all the authorities the instruction to end their diversity programs. This also applies to the Ministry of Defense. The diversity programs would undermine the leadership as well as the cohesion of military associations and thus the “deadliness” and “willingness to fight” of the troop, Trump had declared. The new US defense minister Pete Hegseth is also a decisive opponent of diversity and equality measures.
War hero Rogers died in Germany
Charles Calvin Rogers was born in 1929, fought in the Vietnam War and was wounded there several times when he defended a US military base. He was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Robert Nixon. After leaving military service, he moved to Germany and worked as a clergyman under US soldiers stationed in Heidelberg. In 1990 he died in Munich.
Rogers is not the only war hero whose memory falls victim to Donald Trump’s directives. As the AP news agency reported, the Pentagon has already removed thousands of pictures from its photo archive – including photos of black soldiers or a picture by Jeannie Leavitt, the country’s first fight pilot.
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