Ross Haskie, a Navajo and native of Arizona, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/santafe.asp.  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 25, 1942. Cpl. Haskie was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and one of the first to see action. One of the original twenty-nine Code Talkers Chester Nez credited Haskie and two others with creating the code. In July 2001 the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers received the Congressional Gold Medal. Haskie's honor was posthumous; he died September 12, 1976.  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151597287.pdf.
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