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PHOENIX — The Pentagon restored some web pages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned the ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away in his Albuquerque home. Nez was recruited with 28 other Native Americans by the U.S. Marines to create a ...
This ‘completely inaccurate’ war film was released in 2002 and has done anything but age well. Windtalkers is an action movie about a man facing his own demons and trying to redeem himself ...
In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film about an American platoon in Iraq, there is no admirably staged bloodshed or witty repartee. That’s the point. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...
But even the best movie couldn’t replicate the progress Code Talkers gave their people, Draper said. “Up until 1968, our kids were being severely punished for speaking Navajo at school,” Ted ...
As part of the effort, the department removed articles and images of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen. It also pulled the historic photos of six ...
“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others," he wrote. "We do not view or ...
WASHINGTON, United States — From erasing the stories of Navajo "code talkers" on the Pentagon website to demolishing a "Black Lives Matter" mural in Washington, President Donald Trump's assault ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. WWII veteran and Navajo Code Talker Peter ...