By proclamation of President Ronald Reagan, this day in 1982 became the first National Navaho Code Talkers Day. The code talkers rendered an invaluable service as the U.S. Marines during WWII. They used their native language as a military code, which the Japanese failed to break. Some four hundred Navaho Indians were code talkers, with thirteen being killed in action. President Reagan said: "Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate August 14, 1982, as National Navaho Code Talkers Day, a day dedicated to all members of the Navaho Nation and to all...