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Pamela Uschuk's avatar

This erasure is a stain on our history. We would have lost WWII without the Navajo Code Talkers. Their language was the only code the Japanese could not break. How can a democracy erase its heroes? Or anyone for that matter. There's a lot of that going on now, the same way Stalin erased people who opposed him in the Soviet Union...they no longer exist. This is outrageous.

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

Racism is alive and well -- thriving, in fact -- amongst the Trump team. They also seek to revise history to suit their white-supremacist narrative. Thus, notwithstanding the enormous contributions of the Navajo -- << Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, later stated: "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." >> -- this "brave" dictator, who never served in any branch of the armed forces, now wants to obliterate mention of their role in our eventual triumph: shameful!

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