God bless the heroic Code Talkers and may they live long in our memories.
Why is Japanese considered an "obscure" language?
George Smith rest well. You have brought great pride to your nation and our country.
This is actually incorrect.
A number of tribes had code talkers, including Cherokee, Comanche, Choctaw (who started the idea during WWI), Lakota and more.
I seriously doubt the Japs broke any of their codes either.
Another member of The Greatest Generation passes.I hope he had a happy,fulfilled life.In a related story,the nation that brave men like Mr Smith fought to build and preserve died along with him yesterday.
The US Army created the code talkers in WWI and used them in all theaters in WWII, including the Pacific, Cherokee, Comanche, Choctaw, Lakota and more.
We don’t know why no one has ever heard of them, or why a white, black, or even another non Navajo speaking Navajo, radio-operator, isn’t “heroic”, or why a radio operator is “heroic” solely based on what language he was speaking into his radio.
This windtalker thing is kind of bizarre, they were radio operators, the only difference with them is that they used a different code on the air.
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Ben they will always be Hero’s to a grateful nation .....god Bless those men for what they did .