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[Lindsays Grandma]

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@SouthFlorida321 wrote:

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@MacDUFF wrote:

@SouthFlorida321

What are the odds that a few minutes after posting to you about related subjects, I would come across this article!   I include all the code makers, code breakers, and code talkers in the "intelligence community" along with Intrepid.

It's a nerdy MacDuff thang!

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@MacDUFF I'm going to look up that book you mentioned.  I would like to get back into reading books.  After Irma, I was so peaceful and just read booksfor 5 days.  I miss it.

I used to read at least 2 books a week.

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Oh gosh, me too, have to have my books.   No E Books for me, real books with pages I have to turn.  I always have one waiting in the wings when I finish one.

[Tadaki]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I don't quite understand this Navajo Code Talker business. About three years ago much ado was made about the death of the last Navajo Code Talker.  Of course we hear a lot about them here in NM.  I even met one at breakfast in a restaurant one morning. Anyway, ever since the supposedly last one died, a bunch more have died.  Very mysterious.

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I read that there was a group of 29 code talkers, and the last of them died in 2014.  However, there were others who "qualified" as code talkers.  Not sure what that means, but maybe that's why you see others.  

[Kachina624]

On our local newscast at noon today,  they said there are still about a dozen living.  They must have been the "back-ups".  The written Navajo language is virtually unpronounciable by English speakers.  I see names of places and the pronunciation just baffles me.

[MacDUFF]

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@Tadaki wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I don't quite understand this Navajo Code Talker business. About three years ago much ado was made about the death of the last Navajo Code Talker.  Of course we hear a lot about them here in NM.  I even met one at breakfast in a restaurant one morning. Anyway, ever since the supposedly last one died, a bunch more have died.  Very mysterious.

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I read that there was a group of 29 code talkers, and the last of them died in 2014.  However, there were others who "qualified" as code talkers.  Not sure what that means, but maybe that's why you see others.  

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@Kachina624

@Tadaki

In 2014, Navajo Code Talker Chester Nez died.   One article I read said he was the "last of the original 29."   There were some 400, I believe, so I think Tadaki is probably correct. 

But, to be technically correct, the article should have said Mr. Nez was the last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers from WWII...there were code talkers from other Nations as well.   So, more confusion might be that one is the "last of the Navajo code talkers," and another might be the "last of the Hopi code talkers."

The first code talkers were used in WWI...Choctaw and Cherokee code talkers.

American heroes, all.