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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Ground has been broken on a new museum honoring Navajo Code Talkers. At age 94, Peter MacDonald is one of three still alive today. Their service was pivotal in winning World War II, but Marine Corps top brass initially rejected the idea, saying they “might embarrass this proud organization,” MacDonald recalls. Their success was a cruel paradox in light of America’s painful history of Native American boarding schools meant to strip students of their heritage.
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They are our nations heroes .If not for them we may have not have won the war.Many do not realize how important the Navajo was in winning World War 2.
Those men are heroes of epic proportions, national treasures that must be remembered and honored.
@@debravanausdale1063 How about just giving back their land.
thats an exagerration , but yes they are heroes .
@@paulsawczyc5019 They have a lot of land: 27,000 sq miles.
@@yvonneplant9434 Yeah, but it all looks like land where nothing will grow. The Eskimos also have "land".
The Navajo culture is a rich, very special, hugely inspiring, worth learning about. The four sacred gifts. Their language is sacred to them. The Navajo are awesome.
“What they fought with was our culture, what they fought with was our language.”
RESPECT to Navajo Nation veterans ✊ ❤
The Code Talkers are forever remembered.
Build them a massive monument in their honor
Build that museum 👏 ✨️ 🙌
Truly special what these men were doing for this war
We need this museum built to honor our Navaho people who fought in world War 2 from now on.
I think, as a Dutchman, this is something we should never forget.
Were you were in a plane, would they call you The Flying Dutchman
@@DogeChow91 Only if I get out mid-flight, and only for a relatively short time...
@@bramslootweglol
An important part of us history. There work was crucial for the war effort.
"BEFORE WE ARE GONE" 💯
AMEN ! Time to give them the credit that they deserve !
What a class act. Amazing the love he has for the very country that stold his land. He saw the good no matter what. This is Amazing grace in action. Ty for your service I see your divinity.
As a navajo I'm grateful for these men to save us in war
Amazing!!! I feel proud to say that my great grandpa Jimmy King Sr was a Navajo Code Talker and would like to say Thank You to all Code Talkers.
Beautiful and proud people. Never loose your culture. Teach the old ways. You are more American than most if not all. Thank you for your service. Thank you. ❤
I love this story. Beautiful place. My late father was a ww2 radio
Operator abroad the USS Californian battleship for 4 years as his got his midd-shipman’s assignment in the US navy’s. .☕️🇺🇸Code talkers were rare ...and cherished ...and loved ones. Saved America! 🙏🤎💙☕️😊💟💚✍🏽🇺🇦🌧🍫🎆
Thank you to my Navajo code talkers. Thank you for your service. I’m happy to be Navajo (Diné) 😊❤️
True heroes need to be immortalized...... Before there was an America..... There was a proud people who roamed these lands. Give it back since we can't figure out how to respect that land.
Yes this is great. They are all awesome.
So much respect for these heroes! And all native Americans! Absolutely love this!
About time! HEROES love from Kelowna British Columbia Canada
These guys are legendary
Our heros!
Happy for them… but sad for many many others…
They need to include this in social studies and history, ridiculous that I only now found out about this..
Thank you for covering this story! We need this museum. We must always remember the significant role the Code Talkers had in WWll. Our children must learn and remember these courageous individuals and others who fought for our country despite adversities faced at home. These are the people who brought greatness to our country, who served selflessly with conviction in the ideals this country is about.
Much respect and gratitude to the Code Talkers and their families! 💜🌎
In high-school learning about ww2 we had to know a lot of the white groups and operations that performed in ww2, only 6 years after high-school did I learn about the amazing Navajo code talkers, this museum is well deserved and long awaited
Our nation owes these marines at least the little they ask and deserve.
You realize these men not only had targets on there backs from the Japanese but standing orders were dont let them get captured shoot them as last resort
I saw a story a few years ago about about a museum kinda like this in the desert and unfortunately the Location was where people didn't stop to see it and it closed. But Yes we do need a museum like this for Coldtalker generation
*code talkers
Our diversity is our strength....yep. this man's words are beautiful and poignant and should be memorized.
Excellent. I’ve always admired this chapter in history.
It's about time! 🤗
When I graduated from high school, I wasn’t ready for college or working for minimum wage. So, I asked my uncle to give advice. He was one of the original Navajo Code Talker. He advised me, go into the military. Score very high on the ASVAB, that way you will get a good MOS, Rate to me because I enlisted in the Navy. Best advice and best military branch, Navy.
It's about time
Very moving!!
The Navajo Code Talkers, young marine volunteers, are awesome!
God bless all our veterans!!! Never forget !!!!
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Congress should fund this museum if they aren't.
Warriors are not made they are born like this Man..many Navajo Men serve this country and still do, the government will not have to draft us ,we will serve with honor
He made logic, wisdom
Excellent!!!
Navajo Code Talkers true American Heroes, Thank for your Service.
Bless them all - here and departed - for their heroism and love of country.
Amazing
A'He'Hee SIR !!
After all we put them thru, they VOLUNTEERED their lives. There is no way to repay this debt. NO WAY. How dare we even think it was ok to ask of them? What a beautiful human being. They deserve a museum and so much more.
Thank you for covering this
Thank you for your service 🙏
I'm a Marine Corps veteran myself and I was lucky enough to be able to meet Charles Lindberg the last survivor of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima. He told me that if it wasn't for that code, the war would have lasted a lot longer.
I would love to see it after it’s finished!
I want time to stand still so we don't lose any more of these heroes. But they probably wouldn't want that.🙏❤️
I didn’t know about this, thanks for sharing!
👍🏻💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💋💋🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 This is very, very long overdue. Without the descendants of the victims of our genocide, American Democracy and Europe would have fallen long ago. We all owe these men literally everything. 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am reading the book about them I found this very interesting
People talk about how difficult it was to crack the Enigma machine but at the end of the day it was organic language that was truly unbreakable. These gentlemen are a credit to the Corps and the Navajo people. I remember hearing about these guys coming up in the Corps, truly legendary stuff and being able to do it while in the middle of some of the most hellish fighting of that war.
The Navajo could recognize each-other by voice so they could tell if codes were fake ones sent by the Japanese also
Finally recognizing some of our nations truest heroes ❤️
TRULY the Greatest Generation !
NAVAJO PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR THEIR LAND LONG BEFORE THE MILITARY HOW CAN IT BE "EMBARRASSING"? WHERE WOULD U.S BE TODAY HAD THIS NOT HAPPENED? WE OWE THEM EVERYTHING!!!! WHY IS THERE NOT MORE BEING DONE FOR THEM??????? AHEEHEE SHI DINE 🤟 THANK U FOR ALL FOR OUR FREEDOM 🇺🇸
May God bless the Navajo Nation and these Soldiers for their contributions to the War effort.
So incredibly interesting
I am so glad for the Navajo Nation. They deserve more than a museum. It is wonderful to see how America can come together as one to defend it. All races get this credit. Japanese Americans fought as well in (Europe) WW2 to show their loyalty to the US after being bombed by their own people. "The Red Tails" too. It's like Charlie Daniels writes in his song "In America." "We may have done a little fighting amongst ourselves but you outside people best leave us alone. Cause we'll all stick together, you can take that to the bank, the cowboys, the hippie's, rebels and yanks." Thank you for your service Navajo Nation.
Finest Warriors-they saved the World
And finest Marines
My Grandpa Pete was in the Philippines during WW II and he told me that the Code Talkers saved us...
NAVJO'S SAVE AMERICAN AGAIN ✊🏽
Long live the legacy of those native American Indian.... They are true patriotic Americans....
Wow, must be difficult to build in NM!
So wonderful!
WITHOUT THEM LOTS OF AMERICANS COULD DIED WITHOUT NAVJO'S..... I RESPECT THEM FULLY ALWAYS I LOVE THEMM THANK YOU CODE TALKERS
My great grandfather spoke fluent Polish my mother told me but unfortunately it wasn’t passed down 😢
This guy could have been the reason why my grandpa didn’t die in WW2. Each soldier played their role and I may have very well not been here
WoW WoW WoW 🙌🏼 forever in your debt. ❤️
I heard about how the Navajos got through the marine boot camp like it was just another day. Meaning they lived in worse conditions so a boot camp and the war environment was nothing new to them.
Native pride nation wide
As a French and language enthusiast, I find this totally fascinating.
Pretty inspiring.
👍😎🇺🇸
May god protect us navajo
The men who saved the planet by communicating without excessive speech.
True American heroes.
To give the Navajo due respect, they pronounce their name Navajo like the word sad, and not like the rock lava as the announcer did. I used to pronounce it the same but asked a Navajo woman in my home state of Arizona and she said it like the word sad. RESPECT
God bless these heroes!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
After they came back the country they fought for still hated them 😂 that’s that sound fair to you?
Thank you for you essential service Ahahee
Hats off to the Native American Indian who stood up and helped save the very people who once tried to erase them from the face of this planet.
You mean the Anasazi? The Navajo called them, "ancient enemy." Some tribes were extinct when whhytes arrived. Some were on the verge of extinction.
@@halfdome4158 Local tribes fighting against each other on their native lands is very different than a colonizing group of Europeans doing everything in their power to wipe out an indigenous people and eventually sending their children off to boarding schools to erase their Native identity.
And you obviously don’t know the history of the Anasazi. The Navajo didn’t cause the Anasazi to go extinct. By the time of the Navajo’s arrival, major Anasazi settlements had already been abandoned. The last of the Anasazi villages was abandoned by 1300, about a hundred years before the arrival of the Navajo.
How can we donate to the museum building fund?
Hollywood has made every single subject about World War 2 into a movie but not this one?! I will never acknowledge wind talkers because it barely touched the surface of these brave men.
It wasn't only Diné that served as code talkers. Other tribes did as well
They deserve a huge monument for their contribution to the free world. It should be revered as we revere Mt. Rushmore.
INDIANS ARE FROM INDIA....
👊🤩 - "We are Dine' aka Navajos..."
I SALUTE YOU,,,,,SIR
Gives the skunk's works a whole new meaning
New museum cant wate to go
A monolith in Navajo on one side and English on the other side as a "Navajo Rosetta stone" would be a neat tribute.
Tribes....Raindance
It’s impressive that the Americans cracked the Japanese code, the British cracked the German enigma, but the Axis powers never broke the Navajo codes!
The first step in code breaking is to know the language of the code. Both Japanese and German language are widespread but Navajo language is only found in Navajo reservations and only spoken by Navajos. Also Navajo is an unwritten language. The Navajo Code is actually much simpler that the codes used by Japanese and German military. The Japanese is unable to break it because it is in a language unknown to them. The Japanese actually had an opportunity to break it. A Navajo soldier known as Joe Kieyoomia was among the American POWs captured in the Phillipines. He was first assumed to be Japanese American due to his Japanese sounding surname. When his Navajo ancestry was confirmed, the Japanese suspected that intercept American code was in his native language and interrogated him. Kieyoomia was a Navajo instead of a code talker and was only to translate the literal meanings instead the coded meanings. As a result, the Japanese were unable to crack the code. Eventually they gave up the attempt to learn the Navajo language.
They should get their wish yes im a black Indian an I love that part of me too im just now truly learning it please put that museum up be4 they go to lay with their fathers he has the sweetest spirit....
Thank you and congratulations to the Navajo code talkers. You actually saved us all and gave us our freedom. Bless you and I hope you're Museum goes up real quick . You are the US's secret weapon. President Biden should give them the money to build that. Or if it was the Catholics that ran their school sue their butts from here to Kingdom Come
so is their land controlled by the blm like many reservations so they still to this day not do what they want on their own land ? they quit fighting and took less and less land and horrible things like being told they would get food delivered as the land couldn't sustain them and starved until they went out to get food from those who got their land and then how many hung for it in mn. ? lets not forget the price on their heads for being natives. many places still looked down on for being native.
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I always loved natives, I am from Canada. Its very unfortunate how they have been treated, never the less they keep a great attitude. Great culture. I'd call them the most intouch with reality. If I was in office I would love to credit and give whatever they need to have a great life.
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