Navajo code talker from World War II dies
Source: CNN
George Smith, one of the Navajo code talkers who helped the U.S. military outfox the Japanese during World War II by sending messages in their obscure language, has died, the president of the Navajo Nation said.
"This news has saddened me," Ben Shelly, the Navajo president, said in a post Wednesday on his Facebook page. "Our Navajo code talkers have been real life heroes to generations of Navajo people."
Smith died Tuesday, Shelly said, and the Navajo Nation's flag is flying at half-staff until Sunday night to commemorate his life.
Several hundred Navajo tribe members served as code talkers for the United States during World War II, using a military communications code based on the Navajo language. They sent messages back and forth from the front lines of fighting, relaying crucial information during pivotal battles like Iwo Jima.
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Comment: My late father was a proud member of the U.S. Marine Corps and he served in Guadalcanal with the Navajo Code Talkers and was in boot camp in San Diego at Camp Pendleton with them as well.
Dad had many stories that he told me as a young child about the Code Talkers and he had the greatest respect a man could have for the Navajo Code Talkers who, "Won the war for America", as he used to say.
Hozo-go nay-yeltay to / A-na-oh bi-keh de-dlihn / Ni-hi-keh di-dlini ta-etin / Yeh-wol-ye hi-he a-din -- George Smith, 90, RIP
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... who didn't take any crap from anyone.
That sounds like my late father, he didn't take any crap from anyone either.
Dad used to say, "If you take crap from anyone in this life, it is no one's fault but your own!".
He also used to say re: the Code Talkers that, "They had those Japs baffled! No one and I mean no one knew what they were saying!". 
May God Bless all of these fine, brave Marines that fought the fight that no one cared to fight!
Semper Fidelis!!
Another WWII hero has joined his brethren.
I salute you. 
You will be missed.
Watched the movie, Windtalkers a few years ago, quite a story about the Navajo Code Talkers.
Thank you for your service to the country.
Here is a radio station and it is broadcast in the Navajo language (along with lots of good ol' country music to go with it!). 
http://streema.com/radios/KTNN
My mother grew up in Tucson, Arizona and went to a local Indian school (with Hopi students whom she called "Hoppi"
and my grandmother was Cherokee/Choctaw and spoke fluent Cherokee (grandma that is).
These two languages, Cherokee and Navajo share little other than being indigenous languages, but both are far from being extinct luckily.
Thank you for posting this priceless information!! 
Thank you for your service.
I wonder how many Navajo Code Talkers are left.
His name is Chester Nez, 90.
>>Nez, who is hard of hearing and lost his legs to diabetes, speaks in a shaky voice, but his memories of the war are far from faded.
"I am very blessed to tell you that I am so glad to have served my country and my people," Nez said to roaring applause. "I was pretty lucky to come home. I don't know how many Code Talkers are left, but I want to let you know how proud I am."
Nez is the sole remaining member of the original 29 Navajo men recruited to create a code for the Marine Corps for use against the Imperial Japanese Military during WWII.
Much of that code is still imprinted in his memory, he said.
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_21910548/navajo-code-talker-chester-nez-speaks-packed-auditorium
