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Abe
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since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2007-01-30 01:24 PM

NAVAJO CODE TALKERS

In May of Nineteen forty-two
The first of those Talkers came to be
At Camp Pendleton, California
They formed that special “Dictionary”.

During the First World War
When the Choctaw was used some
A white man raised on the Rez
Thought Navajo might be the one.

He’d served in the First War
And he knew we’d sought a way
To send messages amongst the Troops
That no one else knew how to say.

A code in an unwritten language
With no symbols or letter
That only those who spoke it knew
So, what else could be better?

Twenty nine Navajo recruits
Created each new cryptic word
Of Military terms and phrases
Not understood when they were heard.

The Talkers had to memorize
Each and every word to be used
Knowing they had the important task
Of keeping the enemy confused.

What took machines thirty minutes
Just twenty seconds with their Code
And those who knew Cryptology
Recognized this new inroad.

Around four hundred Navajo
Were a part of this unique plan
To speak and send those messages
Which only they could understand.

They were Marines of a special kind
And one of the Generals said
Without the Code Talkers expertise
Iwo would have been lost, instead.

There were many other Victories
Some, we’ll probably hear about
Probably, many more lives saved
They served the Corps well, without doubt.

Finally in Nineteen ninety-two
With half a century passed
Our Nation recognized their Service
And they were honored, at last.

An exhibit at the Pentagon
Now a chance to be on a quarter
Please vote to make that happen
For, much more praise is in order.

Arizona has opened unofficial voting for the image to be placed on its State quarter and I ask you to go to http://www.azcentral.com/ent/quarters/quarters_main.html and vote for “Quarter five”. Since we have the President who caused the “Trail Of Tears” and so many needless Native American deaths on the twenty dollar bill, the least we can do is honor these WWII heroes with a State Quarter to thank and remember them for their Service.
Thanks,
Abe

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

JL
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