By now, most know the fabulous story of the Navajo Code Talkers—young Navajo men who joined the Marines during World War II and were sent to the Pacific Theater in 1942, where they used their native language for a code the Japanese couldn't break. It was such a top secret mission, nobody knew of the Code Talkers until the 1960s, when their glorious story was finally told.
Since then, a grateful nation—and a v
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