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In reply to the discussion: Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order [View all]cojoel
(1,001 posts)20. The use of "Dine bizaad" was one of the most clever means of cryptography deployed in World War 2
It was used as part of a multi-level code, but enemy code breakers could never get past just this first part. Removing these reference from the government's own history records is racist.
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Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 17
OP
Did you have that up earlier? I searched (not a whole lot, though) and did not find it. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 17
#5
THAT does it🤬 This whole assault on our history has got to stop. Don't tell me there's not a way.
Deuxcents
Mar 17
#3
They were also in danger from friendly fire, as their First Nations features (or "insufficiently 'American-looking'
Aristus
Mar 17
#14
These MAGA are Nazis. Code breakers wrecked their war against the world.
travelingthrulife
Mar 18
#67
Here are some Pine Ridge vets and Minnie Spotted Wolf (Blackfoot), and I guess they've been disappeared as well
Leghorn21
Mar 17
#13
I'm ashamed of our nation. I'm angry that these authoritarian lies are enabled.
BadgerMom
Mar 17
#16
Adolf Hitler was "Po'sa taiboo" -- "Crazy White Man" - see, that wouldn't work now
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 17
#18
How disgusting. Tell me who, except those who want to kill, will join the armed services now?
sinkingfeeling
Mar 17
#19
The use of "Dine bizaad" was one of the most clever means of cryptography deployed in World War 2
cojoel
Mar 17
#20
I expect very soon to see the announcement that all women aviators in the U.S. military are grounded.
flashman13
Mar 17
#22
The inscription above the west entrance of the Norlin Library (University of Coloado) is inscribed...
Harker
Mar 18
#78
Ira Hayes was not Navajo. He was "Pima," or as they call themselves "Akimel o'Odham" which means River People
AZLD4Candidate
Mar 17
#40
How Un-American can you be then to try to remove the STORY of those heroes, the Code Talkers?
Botany
Mar 17
#34
Insult, after injury, after insult, after.... Shame on all the acknowledgements disappearing!
electric_blue68
Mar 17
#54
If it wasn't for these guys, WE'D all be speaking German or Japanese. Get your shit together.
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 18
#74
This is veteran Thomas Begay, one of the last two living Navajo Code Talkers from World War II
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 18
#75