Friday, October 8, 2010

Dead Page: Original Navajo Code Talker Dies

ALLEN DALE JUNE (NOVEMBER 28, 1921-SEPTEMBER 8, 2010)

This is especially sad because I have just been making entries about the Original 29 Navajo Code Talkers and mentioned him.

Mr. June hitchhiked to Fort Defiance and Fort Wingate to enlist and left the Marine Corps as a sergeant.

He had been in ill health back when the article "Original Navajo Code Talker tells story" by the Associated Press appeared in the Goldsboro (NC) News Argus on September 5th.

After the war, he received his bachelor's degree from the New Mexico Highlands University in 1952 and his master's at the University of Utah in 1975.

The obituary mentions that he received the Congressional Medal of Honor December 21, 2001, but that is in error. I believe he received the Gold Medal.

He died September 8th at age 89.

The Greatest Generation.

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