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One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107


One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107

On the day John Kinsel came back from the second world war, his mother immediately called in the medicine man. It was not to treat his leg, though it had been broken in Iwo Jima, and on that leg he had walked the last seven miles over the Arizona mountains to Lukachukai and his family, lugging a suitcase so full of hard-to-get cigarettes that he had bound it up with rope. This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “John Kinsel”

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