Posted on 11/11/2014 11:45:07 AM PST by NYer
Greatest American generation, ping!
Well done Marine! Rest in peace!
Go now to your rest, brother. Semper Fi.
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Thank-you for your service, RIP a TRUE American hero.
God bless and Semper Fi. BTT
New Mexico is one of those states I would love to visit.
From his Wikipedia page - Chester Nez (January 23, 1921 June 4, 2014) was an American veteran of World War II. He was the last original Navajo code talker who served in the United States Marine Corps during the war.
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Indians are the one group who can claim they truly DO have a grudge with this country.
And yet they were all willing to make the supreme sacrifice.
Thank you, Semper Fi, and Rest In Peace!
A Warrior and American Hero! Rest in peace sir!!
Thank you for your service Marine.
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U.S Army Choctaw Codetalkers. Image created before 1918.
"" The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. Code talking, however, was pioneered by Choctaw Indians serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. These soldiers are referred to as Choctaw code talkers.
Other Native American code talkers were deployed by the United States Army during World War II, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Lakota Meskwaki, and Comanche soldiers. Soldiers of Basque ancestry were used for code talking by the U.S. Marines during World War II in areas where other Basque speakers were not expected to be operating.""
World War I
In France during World War I, the 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Division, had a company of Indians who spoke 26 languages and dialects. Two Indian officers were selected to supervise a communications system staffed by 18 Choctaw. The team transmitted messages relating to troop movements and their own tactical plans in their native tongue. Soldiers from other tribes, including the Cheyenne, Comanche, Cherokee, Osage and Yankton Sioux also were enlisted to communicate as code talkers. Previous to their arrival in France, the Germans had broken every American code used, resulting in the deaths of many Soldiers. However, the Germans never broke the Indians code, and these Soldiers became affectionately known as code
talkers. World War II
During World War II, the Army used Indians in its signal communications operations in both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. Student code talkers were instructed in basic military communications techniques. The code talkers then developed their own words for military terms that never existed in their own native tongue. For instance, the world for colonel was translated to silver eagle, fighter plane became hummingbird, minesweeper became beaver, half-track became race track, and pyrotechnic became fancy fire.
The Army and Marine Corps used a group of 24 Navajo code talkers in the Pacific Theater, who fought in the many bloody island campaigns. In North Africa, eight Soldiers from the Meskwaki tribe in Iowa served as code talkers in the 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Division. In Europe, the 4th Signal Company, 4th Infantry Division, was assigned 17 Comanche code talkers. From the D-Day landings at Normandy in June 1944, to the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge, they kept the lines of communications secure.
Soldiers from other tribes, including the Kiowa, Winnebago, Chippewa, Creek, Seminole, Hopi, Lakota, Dakota, Menominee, Oneida, Pawnee, Sac, Fox and Choctaw served during the war. Some were killed and wounded and at least one was taken prisoner. As a testament to their professionalism, the enemy was never able to break the code talkers communications.
Many of the code talkers continued in their military careers, serving during the Korean and Vietnam wars."
Ezekiel 22:30 "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
Men willing to become radio operators, join the military, fight in war?
Today is veterans day, for all veterans, including those of the 69 years since WWII.
Brave, brave men executing a brilliant plan. We done Pvt. Nez, rest easy.
RIP to this guy
Finest Americans BUMP! Belated R.I.P., sir.
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