Preston Toledo, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/santafe.asp.  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on October 17, 1942. PFC Toledo served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, until December 26, 1945. A photograph of Toledo, and cousin, Frank Toledo, relaying coded information during the war was included in a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 2006. This image made them a face of the Code Talkers for many. The exhibit followed the presentation of the Congressional Silver Medal to Code Talkers in 2001. Toledo died December 15, 2004.  https://libapps.salisbury.edu/nabb-online/exhibits/show/native-americans-then-and-now/item/606#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1%2C-53%2C1030%2C555.
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Preston, left, and Frank, right, during World War II. USMC Photo

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