#OTD, we remember and honor the National Navajo Code Talkers, whose ingenuity and bravery significantly impacted the Pacific Island-Hopping Campaign of World War II. Their unbreakable code, rooted in the Diné language, helped secure crucial victories for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Participating in every major #Marine operation in the Pacific, these #CodeTalker teams proved essential in outmaneuvering the enemy with their swift, secure, and impenetrable communications.
Working in pairs, one handled the radio while the other translated and relayed messages in the Diné language, adapting their vocabulary for the complexities of modern warfare with a phonetic code. Their innovative approach ensured secure communication.
Even today, the legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers endures.
Semper Fidelis.
#USMCHistory #SemperFi #NavajoCodeTalkerDay
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Feeling a bit hopeless. I cherish my home on Sunshine Hill and love my wildlife neighbors. I have seen bobcats and foxes raises generations of their families here, birds makes their nests, frogs climb my windows, butterflies flutter in the spring, and bears, mountain lions and coyotes wander through the property. I take seriously my responsibility to provide a home for wildlife and steward the land.
Yet I am turning into an island here on Sunshine Hill. And it doesn’t matter how much I welcome wildlife, they won’t persist if the surrounding area is developed. Another new neighbor with bulldozers. Trying to sit and my yard and watch the birds today, all I can hear is the sound of destruction-you can hear it on this video, and the site is a half a mile away!
I am not sure how to get people to care. We are in the midst of a collapse of biodiversity that threatens so much of life on earth-including our own. I guess we won’t be satisfied until we reach a sort of Mordor like landscape, a scorched earth devoid of the wild world. It’s not just my neighborhood, I see so many calls to promote growth and development in our small community, it frightens me.
Can we just agree to halt? We cannot spare one inch of undeveloped land anymore. No more room for compromise-the natural world has already compromised because of us. We need to stop this insane thinking that growth and exploitation of our world is okay.
I am frightened of the day the foxes won’t reappear. Or the bears and birds. I hope they forgive us.
"Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet" Edward Abbey
“The rapid loss of biodiversity that we are witnessing is about much more than nature. The collapse of ecosystems will threaten the wellbeing and livelihoods of everyone on the planet.” Linda Krueger