Thank you, Ohiococonut. Your response was particularly heatwarming to me because my dad was a proud Marine in that theater. His company had a few code talkers in it. Although he was not ever assigned to personally watch over them, he knew them. My dad never talked much about the War, but he would talk about these brave men with the utmost respect and admiration. Dad was often assigned as a forward observer, more often using a hardline telephone rather than a radio. When he used a telephone, he was usually by himself; when he used a radio, he was usually with a code talker because the radios were monitored by the Japanese. I will always stand in awe and respect for what these brave men did for us.
