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To the Marines Defending our Freedoms

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Happy Birthday Marines! What makes the Corps great — in 10 awesome images

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See pictures: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marine-corps-241st-birthday



 
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Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tom Holiday dies at age 9

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Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died at the age of 94 on Monday in Utah.

Holiday, who used his native language to create an uncrackable code to help win World War II, spent his later days living at the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins, his granddaughter told The Spectrum.

Tya Redhouse told the newspaper that Holiday will be buried on the Navajo Reservation, in Kayenta, Arizona, next to his wife.

The 93-year-old passed away surrounded by friends and family who traveled to be with him, she told the Spectrum.

Holiday went through Marine Corps boot camp at the age of 19 in 1943 and joined a group of Native Americans who used their native language to develop the communication code for the U.S. military in World War 2 that proved to be uncrackable.


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Navajo leaders believe fewer than 10 Code Talkers are still alive today. The exact number is unknown because the program remained classified for several years following the war.

Entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/12/navajo-code-talker-samuel-tom-holiday-dies-at-age-94.html
 
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