{"id":95186,"date":"2020-02-05T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95186"},"modified":"2020-02-05T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:04:58","slug":"another-warrior-leaves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95186","title":{"rendered":"Another Warrior Leaves Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another Codetalker has left us<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/02\/01\/navajo-code-talker-dies-at-96-less-than-a-handful-remain\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 One of the few remaining Navajo Code Talkers<\/a>\u00a0who used their native language to\u00a0confound the Japanese<\/a>\u00a0in World War II has died.<\/p>\n

Joe Vandever Sr.\u00a0died of health complications<\/a>\u00a0Friday in Haystack, New Mexico, according to his family. He was 96.<\/p>\n

Tribal leaders called Vandever a “great warrior” and a “compassionate family man” and asked Navajos to keep his spirit and his family in their prayers.<\/p>\n

Vandever was among\u00a0hundreds of Navajos who served in the Marine Corps<\/a>, transmitting messages using a code based on the Navajo language. The code developed by an original group of 29 Navajos was never broken. – article<\/p>\n

May the road rise to meet him, the winds be always at his back, and his horses strong and fast on the trail ahead\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Codetalker has left us https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/02\/01\/navajo-code-talker-dies-at-96-less-than-a-handful-remain\/ From the article:\u00a0 One of the few remaining Navajo Code Talkers\u00a0who used their native language to\u00a0confound the Japanese\u00a0in World War II has died. Joe Vandever Sr.\u00a0died of health complications\u00a0Friday in Haystack, New Mexico, according to his family. He was 96. Tribal leaders called Vandever a “great warrior” and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,12,10,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-gathering-of-eagles","category-historical","category-marine-corps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-oLg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}