Carl Douglas Rogers

Carl Douglas Rogers (1954–2016) was an American anti-war activist, writer, Sunday School teacher, and cancer patient advocate. Briefly a chaplain's assistant in Vietnam, he publicly denounced the conflict, and in 1967, he became a co-founder and vice president of protest organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He appeared in press conferences, in pacifist organization Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam; founded Vietnam Veterans for McCarthy;

He marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., likely as part of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's 1967 anti-war demonstration in New York City titled Spring Mobilization to End the War.

He had 3 separate primary cancers and became a patient advocate, serving on the National Cancer Institute editorial board. likely near or in his hometown of Chardon, Ohio. His parents' names are not stated in sources; his father was a newspaper columnist. Rogers was an Army Specialist Fourth Class chaplain's assistant with the 1st Logistical Command at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. he stated, "The words and emotions that poured out were the most poignant and angry words I had ever heard in opposition to that dirty stinkin' rotten little war. Some scorched the air with their curses, said author Gerald Nicosia in his history of the Vietnam Veterans Movement, Home to War. It was, I know, the most justifiable and legitimate FUCK YOU! moment I will ever experience in my life. Fuck you, Lyndon Johnson! Fuck you, Robert MacNamara! Fuck you, Richard Nixon! Fuck you Henry Kissinger and all the other old men who send young men off to war! Take your goddamn medals and shove em! I walked away from that moment in tears, but never more proud to have been a part of the founding group of brothers who created VVAW. That protest was our finest moment in working to end a war the American people did not vote for and did not want." In May 1975, he helped organize the VVAW's War is Over concert which had over 50,000 attendees. Performers included Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Richie Havens, Harry Belafonte and Peter Yarrow.

Diagnosis and patient advocacy In 1993, Rogers was diagnosed with kidney cancer at 39.

Circa 2015, Rogers was a communications consultant and writer. The same year, he expressed his intention to plan a commemorative trip to Vietnam in June 2017, in celebration of the VVAW's 50th anniversary.

On October 22 or 23, 2016, Rogers died of cancer in Los Angeles.