Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval dies; 3 left
Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II using a code based on their native language, was 98.
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Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II using a code based on their native language, was 98.
Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.
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Creating a place to remember the Code Talkers — almost all have died in the 70-plus years since the war's conclusion — near the Arizona border still requires tens of millions of dollars for completion, and proponents worry bureaucratic and turf issues could keep the facility from becoming a reality.