Your kinsmen provided a heroic service to our country. I’m sorry it took so long to recognize them but at last they are receiving some. I hope that like Chester’s their story can be recorded before they pass on.
I came across this website that is raising funds for a museum which I presume will be located at Window Rock.
I have wondered why it took so long to honor those Americans, I remember when it finally happened, it was a non event. It is wrong to celebrate such events that happened but I know that family were disappointed.
My maternal grandfather, my born of - shi chii, was in the air core in the Pacific, just a soldier my grandmother said. I never met him, knowing there are Dine that served and that live to remind us causes me to look towards them.