{"id":75258,"date":"2017-10-10T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75258"},"modified":"2017-10-10T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:35:26","slug":"david-patterson-senior-navajo-code-talker-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75258","title":{"rendered":"David Patterson, Senior, Navajo Code Talker passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/David-Patterson-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/David-Patterson-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/David-Patterson-277x333.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/David-Patterson.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of our ninjas passes along the sad news that David Patterson, Senior has passed at 94 years old in New Mexico, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona\/2017\/10\/09\/navajo-code-talker-david-patterson-sr-dies\/747933001\/\">AZ Central<\/a>. Mr Patterson, survived by his six children, was a a Navajo Code Talker for the Marine Corps in the war against the Japanese in the Pacific;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although Patterson didn\u2019t talk much about his service, one of his sons said his father was proud of being a Navajo Code Talker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe attended as many Code Talker events as he could,\u201d Pat Patterson said. \u201cIt was only when his health started to decline that he didn\u2019t attend as many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patterson served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945 and was the recipient of the Silver Congressional Medal of Honor in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>After his military service, Patterson became a social worker and worked for the tribe\u2019s Division of Social Services until retiring in 1987.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our ninjas passes along the sad news that David Patterson, Senior has passed at &hellip; <a title=\"David Patterson, Senior, Navajo Code Talker passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75258\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Patterson, Senior, Navajo Code Talker passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258","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=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}