{"id":67831,"date":"2016-09-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67831"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:13:30","slug":"joe-hosteen-kellwood-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67831","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hosteen Kellwood passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67832\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Kenji2-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Kenji2-300x239\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67832\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Marine_7002 sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/07\/us\/navajo-code-talker-joe-hosteen-kellwood-obit\/index.html\">the sad news<\/a> that Joe Hosteen Kellwood, a Navajo code talker, has passed at the tender age of 95. He served with the 1st Marine Division at Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps tweeted out a video of Kellwood singing the Marine Corps&#8217; Hymn in his native language;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honor the Fallen<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers passed away at 95 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0og0yxKnDf\">pic.twitter.com\/0og0yxKnDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Marines (@USMC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMC\/status\/773311788729245696\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.azcentral.com\/news\/specials\/veterans\/articles\/kellwood.html\">Arizona Central<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1942, at age 21, he joined the Marines leaving behind the Navajo Nation and the dusty trails of home.<\/p>\n<p>He told his sister, Da&#8217;ahijigaagoo deya, or, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to war.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kellwood passed just three days after his brother, Ron, passed at 101 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine_7002 sends us the sad news that Joe Hosteen Kellwood, a Navajo code talker, has passed &hellip; <a title=\"Joe Hosteen Kellwood passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67831\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Hosteen Kellwood passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}