said he joined the U.S. Marines right out of high school in 1943. He said he was sent to test as a Code Talker when he completed boot camp and the Marines realized he was fluent in Navajo and English.

Descendants of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native veterans were on hand for a Memorial Day ceremony at Steele Indian School ...

Buckles, a 70-year-old retired P.E. teacher at Milwaukie High School, drove the Hummer across the country with his wife, ...

Even in the schools, they didn’t teach that in history.” In recent years, the role of the Navajo code talkers has gained more exposure. In 2001, the Congressional Gold Medal was presented at a ...

He is a descendant of a Navajo Code Talker, the late Roy Hawthorne, who saw action in Okinawa. Hawthorne said participants in the day’s events range from the Ganado Primary School Princess to ...

The Pentagon has ordered military leaders to remove and review all library books that relate to diversity, anti-racism or ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away in his Albuquerque home. Nez was recruited with 28 other Native Americans by the U.S. Marines to create a ...

John Kinsel Sr., one of the last Navajo Code Talkers who served in WWII, dies at 107 “Mr. Kinsel was a Marine who bravely and selflessly fought for all of us in the most terrifying circumstances ...

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Opinion. As we mark another Memorial Day, the flags will wave, the bugles will sound, and America will pause — if only ...