TellingBird
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Post by TellingBird on Aug 30, 2010 10:09:34 GMT 9.5
Original Navajo Code Talker still tells his story Posted at: 08/29/2010 11:30 AM By: FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon. Outside, on a walk sheltered from the sun, nine of the Code Talkers sit at a table autographing the books. One of these men, who signs his name as Cpl. Chester Nez, is distinguished from the others. Before hundreds of Code Talkers were recruited from the Navajo Nation to join the elite unit, 29 Navajos were recruited to develop the code - based on the then-unwritten Navajo language - that would confound Japanese military cryptologists and help win World War II. Of the Original 29, only three survive. And Nez is the only one who can still tell the story.
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Post by ozimum005 on Aug 31, 2010 20:35:40 GMT 9.5
Ive seen the movie Wind Talkers. It would be wonderful to read the story also. I really enjoyed the movie. I wonder if you can get the book here in Australia. I think my father would enjoy it also.
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