Navajo Code Talkers honored

43rd U.S. President George W. Bush presented the Navajo Code Talkers their Congressional Gold Medals at the Capital Rotunda, Washington, DC. Courtesy of CSPAN2.

[@GB-dg1fj]

Ya’at’eeh’ much love and respect to our Native American Code Talkers from WW1 and WW2. Indecipherable languages that helped our Americans take victory. Proud to be a Navajo American!!

[@guessmyname6210]

I'm not Indian and I don't know them but I'm so damn proud of them.

[@shiverarts8284]

We're trying our best to help learn and fight against the military complex that plagues this country. May these men being a shining example that The Land is still protected by the forces of good... For our people.

[@randalebenally1162]

"Maybe Japan Is Listening" priceless!!! #Navajo Ahoo'

[@guitarboy2458]

I’m a Navajo my grandfather was a code talker

[@donnanancekivell9430]

How proud you must be Colby.........

[@junerm21]

Sounds like something I should study. First I hear of Navajo Code Talkers. Extremely interesting. History is a subject I truly appreciate.

[@ducksinarowpatience3670]

thank you code talkers

[@shadoanplatero4654]

The GREAT NAVAJO NATION!!!!

[@victoriabenally8319]

Will this is a great day to see history for Navajo Code Talkers being addressed in nation wide. Thank u for sharing, honorable Chairman Peter McDonId.

[@barbaraburdick9533]

Presiden Bush performed this ceremony heroically!!! The code talkers were our heroes, and given their long overdue honor! After the cerrmony, President Bush took the time with their loved ones to sign their certificates of their belated heroes. It showed his kindness and sense of humanity.

[@franceleeparis37]

brought a tear to my eyes...

[@sujaypils]

The code for America was Our Mother.

[@patdamon7277]

Oh yes i was there and i Loved every day and minute of it. Got my Uncle Lowell S. Damon Reg #29 Congressional Gold Medal." 👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🦅🪶 yes SEMPER -Fi 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸👍

[@samuraiska320]

After nearly a 100 years yes thank you.

[@silog8181]

The 8 dislike are from people who can't identify who they are.

[@glendraper1980]

I'm proud . of these hero's. .navajo code talkers. Yeah !!!. . front and center. ! .

[@jamesfarrell8339]

Thank you for your service and sacrifices serving our great nation. You make me proud to have served in the United States Marines. Semper Fi brothers. Live long and prosper.

[@ShooterSpree03]

it's not your land

[@softrovioli7391]

My great grandpa was a Navajo Code Talker

[@jaylinegates]

Mines too my great grandfather

[@jamesfarrell8339]

I would like to thank them for their service and sacrifices protecting our great nation. It is their great legacy that makes me proud to have served in the United States Marines. Have a wonderful day today 😘

[@abramlee9958]

My great uncle was one also

[@michaelnaue7363]

Code talkers a blessing from God. Thanks for all they did. We are all Americans..lets keep working togather.

[@fisterhr]

Just finished watching the movie "Windtalkers" and it may me find this video...Thank you Code Talkers!

[@thingme9941]

Quite moving. Lest We Forget.

[@brya6894]

Great warriors

[@TheDankEats]

44,000 Native Americans served in WWII!! Thank you to the Navajos for your service to our country!! E PLURIBUS UNUM!!! 🇱🇷 PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL ❤️

[@wh3nderson95]

I am Navajo American and I remember back in the days of President Bush. I could not bring myself to hate him for the policies of the time. Sure, I was like 5 and he left in 2009. I did learn of the importance of the Code Talkers from family. I remember being in a town called Shiprock where there was a parade and when afloat drove by which had Code Talker veterans. I have never seen so many Navajo people collectively stand up, parents demand the children listen, and see several drunks stagger to stand up. Then I found a recording my Grandpa made with his VCR. It was the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, I found in 2006. I am proud of these men and I hope I can contribute to the Navajo people my own way in the years to come.

[@oso8146]

Greetings from Coyote Canyon New Mexico Navajo Nation USA my grandfather fought in Iwo Jima

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

This is why the President is called the Commander n Chief

[@mariofeathers4194]

There were 30 code talkers. 29 deployed, 1 went home with the knowledge

[@frankcastle5737]

Thank you so much Dine navajos! The heroes and outstanding men of USA!

[@NavajoBabyS]

#NavajoPride #NativePride

[@Excitable101]

Thank you to those that with their language saved so many men from death.

[@veronica4141]

“Phenomenal”. Citizens : leadership in achieving this recognition. omi dul shaka .. Providing Quality to our Nation commitment to quality has been accredited for years inside a Nation that actually cares about another Nation of Congressional and the traffic of what others country's brought inside our Nation of free Speech and Democracy of Freedom .. understanding that code talking is older then our Constitution of the Untied States and Must Be Honored... a Native compels the mind of code talking into another language of Amazing ---

[@MrStaybrown]

That's how a great man speaks. Stays focused, that's a salute.

[@prestonfreeman8443]

Amen💯Diné Code Talkers.!

[@coyotemoonc3258]

We should all be speaking Lakota after its contribution to the war. Seeing the date on the screen hurts my heart knowing what's coming next.

[@tm13tube]

I've read in one place there were other tribes with code talkers.

[@casestudy21]

Yes, there were other tribes but the Navajo language was used because the majority of young men under the age of 18yrs old were Navajos and gave their honor to serve for their lands. The code was smoother, quicker, and with more precision to coordinates and enemy lines using the Navajo language. The codes were codes in itself... shícheii served, not one of the original but a code talker at 16 years old. Heard these stories from shímasani....

[@tm13tube]

For those readers who haven't known this maybe you have the same misunderrstanding I had. I thought these brave men talked in Navajo but it wasn't that simple. They developed a code from the Navajo language. The code was two levels of encryption. It was Navajo language which is so challenging to learn with its duplicate letters and an abundance of diacritical marks. Next the Code Talkers used their language to create a code. A gun was not the Navajo word for gun. It was a Navajo word they chose to stand in for gun. A tank wasn't the Navajo word for tank. It was the Navajo word for turtle. Brilliant. Please let me know if there are inaccuracies. My goal is sharing accurate historical information.

[@o.joei.b9929]

Shut up you idiot. As a NAVAJO you should salute and thank these men for there SERVICE. Of course they ain't gonna know the real language. WHY CODE HASNT BEEN BROKEN. Jus because a white person said some wrong terms doesn't mean you should put trash on it.

[@2k.glisten613]

@@o.joei.b9929 how are they trashing it?

[@shiverarts8284]

@@2k.glisten613 they use military line, to affect the meaning of the language. You have to think about the meaning rather than the language. There was no accompanying writing for the language up until the point when they became code talkers. This was a major transition for a lot of these language holders.

[@Kyle-xf4sj]

​@@o.joei.b9929easy 😂

[@gwendelyndashner4871]

Proud 2B Native American as Navajo strong on peace who won WW11 by our language as U live freely,..respect and remember who we R

[@katstrait]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "NATIVE AMERICAN".

[@tm13tube]

That salute is awesome.

[@shiverarts8284]

The gods will remain right here with us forever, remain within peace and happiness. Touching words he said in Navaho. Brought tears to my eyes.

[@kevinw9073]

Well done, better late than never.

[@Kletterhase]

Stop arguing about Trump and Bush and Obama and Clinton. Show a little respect and don't drag these men into the murky waters of american politics. Thank you.

[@derekbahlen9194]

Im Apache I wish I was a code talker

[@shiverarts8284]

I'm pretty sure there were many apache code talkers, as well.

[@dannyshipley7590]

🙏 prayers to the hero's... u deserve every honor...🙏 I'm proud to say...I'm a "DINE"

[@dassjaganathan6476]

Salute and Respect to the Heroes

[@kirkstensgaard618]

Uncle

[@ptRruby]

America need George bush President

[@juliemerritt5144]

Heroes

[@c.charley8799]

Hoooooah!

[@DeathEvol]

Not one Japanese person understood what he said in Navajo. Lol.

[@jjumbo33ify]

May i ask what "lol" you're referring to??

[@DeathEvol]

@@jjumbo33ify i thought it was funny because im Navajo and understood what he said. & he said "maybe Japan is listening" i also thought that was funny. Lol

[@jjumbo33ify]

@@DeathEvol i commented too soon. I ddnt hear the "maybe japan is listening" till the end. But yes, definitely a big LOL!

[@katemoonstone2409]

The reason they were so effective was because they were not speaking income. It wasn't until. Recently they even had an alpha belt

[@curtisgoss2669]

I miss the days when the radical party bickering could be set aside for the good of all.

[@kinteel2551]

Ahe'heela nitsaago sila tsoh

[@shiverarts8284]

Yá'át'ééh shí'ké. Shíbaa hozhóla!

[@TheRealGrinch313]

Thank you, Navajo Code talkers 💛 ...and President Bush.

[@TheRealGrinch313]

I was blessed by the Kachinas (spirits) on Navajo land. Incredible experience.

[@katstrait]

@@TheRealGrinch313 what the hell are you talking about? We Navajos don't have Kachinas and we consider them evil. Stop lying bro

[@TheRealGrinch313]

@@katstrait You're right. I was blessed on land stolen by Navajos that is suppose to be Hopi land. I'm the true white brother as spoken of in the profecies and I'm here to kick you the hell off of the land. Keep talking smack. A Bigfoot saved my life last fall. Skin walkers protect me. They appear evil to only evil people.

[@shiverarts8284]

@@katstrait maybe he was visiting those enemy hopi's. Got them confused with us. Gee.

[@ptRruby]

great awesome president George Bush

[@auntieslyr8953]

I thank the navajo code talkers but i feel we should also thank the Hopi code talkers too!!!!

[@kcirdnehiakada8195]

Why Hopi codetalkers the Hopi language was already understood.

[@navajowarrior6282]

nice vid

[@themightytouchy753]

3:10

[@themightytouchy753]

13:10

[@stevenlopez6384]

Jesus, i trust in you!

[@shiverarts8284]

And then? We believed our prophets doesn't mean we shout their names... Well only during certain times... But not at people, only to the mountains we sing these prayers

[@anthonyhuskett7413]

And the restof them

[@ptRruby]

*6:37* Marine Corps Great

[@gloriachinea5069]

Thanks NATIVE AMERICAN?

[@victoriavaughn2285]

Hi 👋😊 gorge and uncle gorge Aunt Barbara and kid's

[@NbanflNbanfl]

Im Navajo myself and finally watched this video on KZbin.GOD BLESS THE CODE TALKERS AND ALL THE MARINES. 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤❤❤❤❤

[@kaecake9575]

I'm Diné as well. The government doesn't give Marines Reproductive rights.

[@NasirUddin-nk7tc]

Jeeb 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@rolledoffroofrolledoffroof6741]

Vast difference between Bush and Trump Bush did a lot of talking, when he gave the metals only one saluted and smile the rest looked downward with a sad look. With Trump they did the talking it’s their story let them tell it they were there. The speaker told it from the heart not from a script at any rate there American heroes and they are not kneelers like the nfl

[@kaymuldoon3575]

If trump had talked he would have made it all about him. 🤮

[@spkymessage7346]

This is honoring these warriors not to kiss trumps ass. Take that somewhere else

[@reginakee3612]

Who ever dislikes, shall thank us dine' for breaking the code. Thank you Anti haters.

[@katstrait]

Your comment makes no sense. Navajos didn't break any code. ?????????

[@navajokimball7573]

Maybe Japan is listening 💀💪🏽13:00

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

13:39 heh

[@Bledsow]

You and your dad are the biggest liars on record

[@Bledsow]

Liar

[@infidel1327]

Did he say "defeat the emeny"??? LOL.

[@lorraineyoung1472]

He speaks mostly Navajo. English is his second language not by choice but by forced boarding school kidnapped by BOA officals.

[@lorraineyoung1472]

*BIA.

[@DeWoodyard]

You should see how I mix things up on a keyboard...

[@prestonfreeman8443]

Yes. English will always be our Second language. This is how Diné Language have saved your English language. Lol . Better Recognize 👍

[@asupremechieften]

WE ARE THE GREATEST COUNTRY OF ALL TIME BECAUSE WE NURSE EVERY NATION BACK TO HEALTH AND TEACH THEM HOW TO EAT, CLEAN THEMSELVES AND HOW TO SURVIVE IN THIS NEW LAND STOP ACTING LIKE THESE AREN'T FACTS

[@patdamon7277]

I was there during that Congressional Gold Medal for the 29 Navajo Code Talkers. I received my Uncle's Congressional Gold Medal then Lowell Smith Damon. Reginal 29. 👍🙏🇺🇸🪶👍 Sempre Fi 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍