Navajo Code Talkers

Navajo Code Talkers Day will be celebrated Aug. 14 at the Veterans’ Memorial Park in Window Rock.
Members of the Young Marine of the Marine Corps League will set up flags for the Parade of Colors, which will start at 9 a.m. at the Navajo Nation Museum.
For the parade, families and friends are invited to create a float in honor of their Navajo Code Talker. Young Marines will march alongside each float.
The parade will end at the Veterans' Memorial Park, where invocation and posting the colors will be at 10 a.m.
The event will continue with presentations and speeches from code talker historian Zonnie Gorman, Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, New Mexico Cabinet Secretary Timothy Hale, Navajo Nation Council Speaker Johnny Naize, Council Delegate Jonathan Nez, and Code Talkers Peter McDonald Sr. and Bill Toledo.
Lunch will be at noon along with entertainment from Lil Miss Navajo Central Rachelle James and Sister Nations Honor Guard.
Throughout the day the Young Marines will monitor the park, take care of the code talkers then help clean up after the event is over.
President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Navajo Code Talkers Day on Aug. 14, 1982.