It is March and the lovely EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "lucky".
Oh no! The USA clown President Trump (and similarly his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk) gets so angry when Americans point out he was lucky to be born to a rich family. His path to becoming a multi-millionaire? Be born a multi-muliti-millionaire and then lose a lot. And then stop being a multi-millionaire when he went bankrupt all those times. I guess that's why he gets so mad about D.E.I., Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Whenever someone succeeds who didn't start out with Trump's luck, it makes Trump look bad. The manbaby keeps throwing tantrums about it. (Does it seem like I'm writing a lot of D.E.I. puzzles? It feels like I'm writing a lot of D.E.I. puzzles. It's like Trump's obsessions become my obsessions when I let his incompetence inspire my puzzle designs. Anyhow)
Recently someone noticed something strange on the defense.gov website. If you try to visit the page https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/, you get a 404 not found. OK, that's not super weird. What's super weird is that first it redirects to another address: that /medal turns to /deimedal. This was a web page about war hero Charles Calvin Rogers. Rogers was black. Apparently some racist dimwit at the defense department decided to change the address of the page by adding D.E.I. to it; and when that wasn't bad enough, they deleted the page.
If you have a strong stomach for harrowing war stories and want to be impressed by someone staying alive under grim conditions, you might check out Rogers' Wikipedia page. If you'd like a crossword that mentions one of his awards, you can solve this crossword I just wrote.
([Update: solved by Chris D., whew!] Can you solve it? This is EnigMarch, so I just cranked that puzzle out. I didn't proofread it or ask anyone to test it.)
[Update upon update: The Defense Department put the page back on their website.]
No rot-13'd hints or solution today. That online crossword-solving interface should let you check and reveal things. If I did it right. Hmm, guess we'll find out.
