Last code talker dies at 92

[Ragman]

A true American hero !

RIP Ak'is.

Last of original group of Navajo Code Talkers dies

 

[layoutshooter]

What an amazing bunch that was.

 

[cheri1122]

A true American hero !

RIP Ak'is.

Last of original group of Navajo Code Talkers dies

Yes - and a rebuke to the treatment of Native Americans [and all minorities.] What I found amazing was that the Navajo language has no written form, and cannot be learned by non Navajos - it's hard to imagine that "cannot be learned" part. Another one of those "don't know what you've got, till it's gone" things, sigh.

 

[LDB]

It would have been great to know some of them as well as many of the other heroes of that generation. It would be great to have the same in the current generation as well.

 

[skyraider]

It would have been great to know some of them as well as many of the other heroes of that generation. It would be great to have the same in the current generation as well.

10-4 on that. Was thinking: In all my school days,I never heard one person or instructor talk about them. In fact, WW2 was not talked about much, wonder why? Most of my WW2 info came by my Dad's buddies, but that really wasn't much.

 

[cheri1122]

It would have been great to know some of them as well as many of the other heroes of that generation. It would be great to have the same in the current generation as well.

Maybe we do, only we don't recognize them, because we can't see past their differences to appreciate it.
When the code talkers were growing up, they were forbidden to speak Navajo, and had their mouths washed with "nasty, bitter, brown soap" if they were caught.
When we learn that different isn't automatically wrong, we might be better at seeing the good instead of deciding it's bad. Just a thought.

 

[LDB]

Perhaps it should be to have the same to the same extent in the current generation. We certainly do have some but I doubt nearly as many.

 

[Turtle]

10-4 on that. Was thinking: In all my school days,I never heard one person or instructor talk about them. In fact, WW2 was not talked about much, wonder why? Most of my WW2 info came by my Dad's buddies, but that really wasn't much.

The Code Talkers (Navajo and others) and what they did remained classified until 1968.