243K views · 35K reactions | This Veterans Day, we remember Samual Sandoval and his work as a Navajo Code Talker. To learn more about who the Navajo Code Talkers were, visit: https://www.history.com/news/world-war-is-native-american-code-talkers | HISTORY | Facebook

38K views · 1.4K reactions | This Navajo Code Talkers Day listen to Pfc. Joe Hosteen Kellwood sings the Marines’ Hymn in Navajo. Video by Hunter Helis/U.S. Marine Corps. | Stars and Stripes | Facebook

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238K views · 2.1K reactions | Navajo Code Talker and Marine Veteran Thomas Begay received a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a VA medical center on Feb 2. The Code Talkers were a group of 29 Navajo men recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps in WWII to develop unbreakable codes based on their Indigenous languages | NowThis | Facebook

The Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Choctaw, for example, was successfully used during World War I. But the Marine Corps needed an “unbreakable” code for its island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. Navajo, which was unwritten and known by few outside the tribe, seemed to fit the Corps’ requirements. Twenty-nine Navajos were recruited to develop the code in 1942. They took their language and developed a “Type One Code” that assigned a Navajo word