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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Code of Honor by Heather Price-Wright

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 9
Date: November 13, 2015
Article: Code of Honor
Author:  Heather Price-Wright
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1. The U.S. entered the war with Japan in 1941.
2. The country needed to develop a military code to send secret information.
3. The Code Breakers cracked many U.S. codes.
4. The U.S. government was desperate.
5. The Navajo helped the U.S. government create a new secret code.
6. They are a Native American tribe in the southwestern U.S.
7. The Navajo language is complex.
8. No, not many spoke it.
9. A small group of Navajo Marines created the Navajo Secret Code.
10. They used the code for 3 years.
11. 400 Navajo Troops used the code.
12. None were ever decoded.
13. The Navajo Code Talkers played an important role in the U.S. victory in World War 2.
14. The Project was declassified in 1968.
15. Kenji Kawano is a photographer.
16. Kenji Kawano was born in Japan.
17. Kawano moved to Gallup, New Mexico.
18. His aim was to photograph Navajo people.
19. There were 29 original code talkers.
20. The Navajo Nation Fair took place in Window Rock, Arizona.
21. Kawano’s father fought for the Japanese in World War 2.
22. Carl Gorman said, “the war was between governments.”
23. Answers will vary

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