{"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:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?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 … Another Warrior Leaves Us<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95186","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95191,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95186\/revisions\/95191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}