[ansel12]

RIP vet, but this windtalker thing is one of the most strange military/publicity things I’ve ever seen.

The Army started using Indian code talkers in WWI and used them in every theater in WWII, the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe.

[oh8eleven]

Semper Fi ...

[Bull Snipe]

Rest in peace, fallen warrior.

[A_Former_Democrat]

RIP, the Talkers are one of the great stories of WWII

The Greatest Generation

[muir_redwoods]

What a brilliant idea it was to communicate in the Navajo language. I would love to have seen the Japanese code breakers listening in reaction to the “code”.

Ironic that both Navajo and Japanese had ancestors who migrated from Central Asia to their eventual homeland.

RIP Sir, thank you for your service.

[antidemoncrat]

Navajo Code Talkers did a great service to this country.

[Myrddin]

The Duolingo app supports the Navajo language. During some of the war activities around Kosovo, the brits were employing Royal Welsh Fusaliers speaking Welsh for field communications with a similar efficacy to the Navajo code talkers. Duolingo supports Welsh too. For a more obscure language, Scots Gaelic is spoken fluently by less that 15,000 persons on earth. I'm working on adding to that tally.

Kudos for the special services provided by the Navajo code talkers. Patriots bringing a unique capability to the national security.

[The Great RJ]

While the Navaho code talkers are more well known other Native American tribes also served in that role including the Lakota. There should be a monument in Washington DC honoring all the code talkers in both WW-I and WW-II. It would be especially fitting to honor those Native Americans serving in this role in WW-I as at the time they were not considered US citizens.

[mabarker1]

RIP and Thank You for Your Service.

3 still alive ping.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thank you, DFG!
PING to Kathy in Alaska!

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.