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WW2 Navajo Code Talkers Appear in Redskins Jackets; Liberal Heads Explode
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 11/28/2013 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/30/2013 10:06:16 AM PST by Republican Wildcat

The Redskins, as everyone who isn’t the media by now knows, got their name from their Native American players back in the day. Some of the surviving WW2 Navajo code talkers may know that, because unlike liberals, they weren’t born yesterday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; redskins; washington
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To: Republican Wildcat

I’vw been on two Indian reservations and both had gift shops full old Dallas Cowboy and Washington Redskin merchandise.


21 posted on 11/30/2013 10:56:49 AM PST by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: NEWwoman

FYI


22 posted on 11/30/2013 10:57:20 AM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

bm


23 posted on 11/30/2013 11:00:49 AM PST by Vision (Trayvon Martin illustrates the bankruptcy of the modern civil rights movement.)
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To: dayglored

“Original” was for the first class of 29 of them. Wikipedia said another approximately 300 were codetalkers and another site said 420 total.


24 posted on 11/30/2013 11:02:18 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Republican Wildcat


25 posted on 11/30/2013 11:07:01 AM PST by concentric circles
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To: rktman

If the code talkers wanted the name changed, I would stand with them and ask for the name to be changed.


26 posted on 11/30/2013 11:08:04 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Republican Wildcat

They wear Prpudly the Red Skins Embem as proudly as they the Marine Globe and Anchor.


27 posted on 11/30/2013 11:15:05 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Republican Wildcat.


28 posted on 11/30/2013 11:29:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Mears; KarlInOhio

Got it, thanks FRiends!


29 posted on 11/30/2013 11:34:33 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: concentric circles; big'ol_freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ...
Re: WW2 Navajo Code Talkers Appear in Redskins Jackets... Liberal Heads Explode

I have no problem at all... with these Redskins supporters, I applaude their efforts then and now--

However, I will not take back one word... I have ever said about the Deadskins!

30 posted on 11/30/2013 11:35:39 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: jjotto

Sure Wikipedia could be wrong, but in this case it appears that I simply misunderstood which group they were referring to.


31 posted on 11/30/2013 11:36:15 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

They’re still heroes.


32 posted on 11/30/2013 11:37:55 AM PST by moovova
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To: dayglored

Actually the US Army first started using Indian Code Talkers in WWI, and then continued the practice in all theaters during WWII, the Army used them as it did the bulk of the fighting in the Pacific, in North Africa, and in Europe.

“”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.””


33 posted on 11/30/2013 11:42:20 AM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee-JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Great story! Thanks for posting.


34 posted on 11/30/2013 11:47:16 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: moovova
"They’re still heroes."

Yes they are, and I'm proud to call them patriots who love their country.

Note that all of these men look like the real Indians they are.

They don't whine and bitch like the usual "partially Indian" liberals do.

Cher, Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, ad nauseum.

THOSE folks I simply ignore.

35 posted on 11/30/2013 11:50:56 AM PST by boop (I had no IDEA I'd be paying for Obamacare. I thought it would be a rich guy.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Americans vs. Communists! If we could remove the commies from our education system our nation would soon right itself!


36 posted on 11/30/2013 12:03:26 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I just love when some favorite victim group of the Left goes off script and the libs turn purple. They just can’t stand when their victims refuse to be seen that way. Anyone of these warriors only needs to tell one of these lilly-livered liberals “Listen sonny, just shut and sit down, ok? I made it through this life and went to Hell and back for you and don’t need you deciding what gets me riled up or not, thank you’’.


37 posted on 11/30/2013 12:10:43 PM PST by jmacusa (I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Roy Hawthorne, 87, of Lupton, Ariz., was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.

Hawthorne, vice president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, said the group’s trip was paid for by the Redskins. The four men met briefly with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name, Hawthorne said.

Still, he said he would endorse the name if asked, and the televised appearance in which three of the Indians wore Redskins jackets spoke for itself. “We didn’t have that in mind but that is undoubtedly what we did do,” Hawthorne said when asked if he was intending to send a statement with the appearance. “My opinion is that’s a name that not only the team should keep, but that’s a name that’s American.”

Sadly liberals are not American.

38 posted on 11/30/2013 12:17:06 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I believe the Redskins got their name because they were “sister” franchise to the Boston Braves and shared Braves Field with them. Back in the early days of the NFL there were teams like New York Yanksees, Brooklyn Dodgers, the Chicago Bears shared Wrigley with the Cubs, etc.


39 posted on 11/30/2013 12:55:10 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Actually, if Snyder decides to get rid of the name Redskins, Code Talkers might be a good one. Oh, and keep the same mascot.


40 posted on 11/30/2013 1:06:35 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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