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Nicholas Slayton
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John Kinsel, Sr. died on Saturday. There are now only two Navajo code talkers from World War II left. taskandpurpose.com/history/john...
John Kinsel, Sr., one of the last Navajo code talkers, dies at 107
Kinsel used the unbreakable code developed from the Navajo language to help pass important messages in World War II.
There is some dispute on his age. The Library of Congress, with its interview of Kinsel, gives his birth year as 1921. If he is 107 as his family, local media and the Navajo Nation say, he would be born earlier.
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Nicholas Slayton
@nslayton.bsky.social
Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose. Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli.
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3.3k followers416 following9.5k posts