Episode 251: The Code Talkers, Part V: I Was a Radioman
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Episode 251: The Code Talkers, Part V: I Was a Radioman

B2Upper-intermediateMarch 23, 202631 min

Today the Navajo Code Talkers are one of the most famous stories to come out of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. However, following the victory they helped come to fruition, they were all sworn to silence and languished in obscurity for more than two decades before that story was finally told.

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He was visiting Tokyo with his daughter and grandchildren and everywhere he looked

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What co-toker Samuel Hall Day saw in Japan brought tears to his eyes. He was visiting Tokyo with his daughter and grandchildren and everywhere he looked he saw families, children, and a great city. But what he was reminded of was all the old men, like himself, who were not present.

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The same men that a lifetime ago, he had helped ensure would never make it home. He thought to himself that these people, or rather their fathers and mothers or grandparents, even had not been his enemy, but rather the government that had sent them off to war. Always a sensitive man, everything he saw in the modern, bustling Japan touched his heart.

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The experience was so powerful that it almost paralyzed me, he would write. When he left Japan, people there presented him with a gold trim sort that received a place of honor in a case by his living room window. And when he talked about the Japanese, he would always refer to them with respect, never

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