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National Code Talker Day brings 101-year-old veteran to Phoenix

National Code Talker Day brings 101-year-old veteran to Phoenix
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It’s been over eight decades since Thomas H. Begay, 101, and his fellow Navajo Code Talkers helped end World War II using the same language that he grew up speaking — at home and herding sheep, he said Friday after a commemoration in Phoenix. Begay, one of the last two living Code Talkers, made...

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