[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11789-11790]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       HONORING NAVAJO CODE TALKERS STEWART CLAH AND CHARLES GUY

  (Mr. UDALL of New Mexico asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of two 
Navajo Indians and celebrate the

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American heroes who passed away last week. Stewart Clah and Charles Guy 
were members of the elite Navajo Code Talkers. They did not simply rely 
on their ancestral language to relay critical United States military 
communications. Rather, the innovative Navajo Code Talkers used their 
native language to build a succinct and unbreakable code for military 
communications during World War II.
  We will never know exactly how many American lives were saved or how 
many American military operations were successful because of their 
ingenuity and sacrifice. But we do know Stewart Clah and Charles Guy 
and the rest of the Navajo Code Talkers will forever be remembered as 
critical to the Allied victory during one of the world's darkest hours.

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