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By Thomas Clouse, The Spokesman-Evaluate
Printed: March 29, 2025, 6:02am
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Navajo Code Talker Chester Nez, the final of the 29 authentic Navajo Code Talkers, holds a photograph of himself (in 1951 or 1952) in Albuquerque, N.M. He died Wednesday of kidney failure, stated Judy Avila, who helped Nez write his memoirs. He was 93.
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SPOKANE — As a part of what an aide to Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly known as a “digital content refresh,” many references on the Pentagon’s web site that honored Native Individuals who used their ancestral language as an unbreakable code to assist American forces within the Pacific Theater of World Conflict II had been purged final week.
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