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Thursday, November 13, 2003

The families of nine Navajo Code Talkers received their Congressional medals in a Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday.

The nine, who were U.S. Marines, received silver medals for serving in World War II. Their use of an unbreakable code to deliver messages is credited with helping the U.S. defeat the Japanese.

Congress authorized Congressional gold medals to the 29 Navajos who developed the code and silver medals to the more than 300 who followed them. President Bush presented the gold medals to the surviving original Code Talkers in a July 2001 ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Get the Story:
Lost Code Talkers honored (The Farmington Daily Times 11/12)
'Veterans are this nation's heroes' (The Gallup Independent 11/12)
'If it weren't for them ...' (The Gallup Independent 11/11)

Relevant Links:
Sen. Jeff Bingaman's Code Talkers' Site - http://bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers
Harrison Lapahie Jr's Code Talkers' Site - http://www.lapahie.com/NavajoCodeTalker.html
Windtalkers - http://www.mgm.com/windtalkers
Navajo Code Talkers, Yahoo! - http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/
Cryptology/Codes_and_Ciphers/Code_Talkers/Navajo

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