Flags Lowered on Reservation for Navajo Code Talker

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Flags were lowered Wednesday on the Navajo Nation in honor of a man who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II.

Bill Henry Toledo died May 5 in Grants, New Mexico. The 92-year-old was one of hundreds of Navajos recruited from the reservation and trained as Code Talkers.

Navajo President Russell Begaye ordered flags flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset.

Toledo never told his family of his role as a Marine in the war. They found out when looking over his honorary discharge papers in 1972.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/12/flags-lowered-reservation-navajo-code-talker.html

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1. Rest well good man.

[braddy]

2. A mystery about the Indian code talkers, is how the Army ones are ignored and not even known

although the Army created them in WWI and used them in all theaters in WWII, in the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe.