Thanks and goodbye, Edith Shain
She was 91 when she left us Sunday.
Her son Justin Decker said in a statement: “My mom was always willing take on new challenges, and caring for the world war 2 veterans energised her to take another chance to make a difference.”
Category: Blue Skies
Farewell Madame.
But also (and, in my view, more importantly):
Last South Dakota Code Talker Buried
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:38 a.m. ET
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — The last of the American Indian code talkers of South Dakota who served during World War II has been laid to rest.
Clarence Wolf Guts of Wanblee was buried Tuesday in Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. The 86-year-old Wolf Guts died June 16 at the South Dakota Veterans Home in Hot Springs.
Wolf Guts was one of 11 Lakota, Nakota and Dakota code talkers from South Dakota. During the war, they transmitted messages from an Army general to his chief of staff in the field using their native language, which the Germans and the Japanese could not translate.
People came from around the country to pay their respects at his funeral. Gov. Mike Rounds asked that flags be flown at half staff in Wolf Guts’ honor.
One of the all-time classic war photos, almost up there with the flag raising on Iwo…
And we have to read this in a UK newspaper.
I wonder if any of the US MSM covered this?
Sad news.