Update with radio broadcast from D Day
The last of 29 Navajo Americans who developed a code that helped the Allies win the Second World War died in New Mexico on Wednesday at the age of 93, local media reported. God bless these men. Not enough praise has been given them, they saved untold numbers of lives with the code talking. We can always learn something new about them. Did you know they were also in WWI? I didn’t. From Wikipedia:
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. Code talking, however, was pioneered by Choctaw Indians serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. These soldiers are referred to as Choctaw code talkers.
Other Native American code talkers were deployed by the United States Army during World War II, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Lakota,[1]Meskwaki, and Comanche soldiers. Soldiers of Basque ancestry were also used for code talking by the U.S. Marines during World War II in areas where other Basque speakers were not expected to be operating.
Today is the anniversary of D Day.
Those of us in my generation remember it well. It was a terrible day for many, but it was the start of the end of the war in Europe. The number of those who were there, and those who waited for news of their loved ones, and who remember it as children are shrinking. We are losing them everyday, it has been a long time and today’s current crop of youngsters see it as far in the past, as it actually is. I hope the history books and the news media keep it alive and remembered in the generations to come.
From Althouse Blog we get this link so you can listen to the radio broadcast about D Day. “Experience D-Day like your grandparents did, if they weren’t in the military on June 6, 1944. Archive.org has the the complete D-Day broadcast from CBS radio.” You may want to listen while you read the links below.
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