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Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay talks to people prior to the Arizona State Navajo Code Talkers Day celebration ceremony, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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It's been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten native language to confound Japanese military cryptologists during World War II -- and Thomas H. Begay, one of the last living members of the group, still remembers the struggle.

August 15, 2022
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