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Personal logo ColCampbell Supporting Member of TMP05 Aug 2021 6:20 a.m. PST

Never knew that the code talkers had their own day of remembrance.

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Jim

Choctaw05 Aug 2021 6:30 a.m. PST

The Choctaws were the first but apparently the Navajos have a better PR department. The sad irony is my grandmother was in an awesome state-run boarding school getting whipped for using her native tongue while our code talkers were saving lives.

Personal logo ColCampbell Supporting Member of TMP05 Aug 2021 6:52 a.m. PST

Yes, I'm a Mississippian and well aware of the WW1 participation by the Choctaw and Cherokee code talkers. And what was done to the American (and Canadian) Indian children was abhorrent.

Jim

Personal logo KimRYoung Supporting Member of TMP05 Aug 2021 2:38 p.m. PST

About 15 years ago we traveled out west and on on the way to Monument Valley, through the Navajo reservation stopped to eat at a local Burger King and ran into this "Windtalker" exhibit:

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There is also a Windtalker museum in Tuba City too.

Legionarius05 Aug 2021 5:03 p.m. PST

ColCampbell +1 Many minorities did heroic deeds in the World Wars and beyond. I salute them all.

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