HAPPY TRAILS

ime continues to take its toll on the Code Talkers, the heroic Native Americans who used their tribes’ languages to transmit coded messages for the U.S. military in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Among the recently fallen: , a Navajo Code Talker who fought in the Battle of, a member of the Navajo Nation who served in the U.S. Marines from 1944 to 1946 and died June 3 at age 96 in Winslow, Arizona; , the last surviving member of the Mohawk Code Talkers, a Canadian native who served in the U.S. Army and was 94 when he died May 28 in Snye, Quebec, Canada; and , a Navajo Code Talker and Marine veteran who served for decades as a New Mexico state senator, died May 24 at age 94 in Gallup, New Mexico.