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Navajo Code Talker Joe Kellwood dies at 95
The Marines' Hymn sung in Navajo by Code Talker Joe Kellwood
Published on Jul 18, 2014
The official designation of Aug. 14 as Navajo Code Talkers' Day in Arizona moved former code talker Joe Kellwood to song -- in Navajo. It is also the anniversary of Japan's surrender in 1945, which ended World War II.
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A Marine Corp unit of Navajo Indians gathers in Peleliu in November 1944. Joe Kellwood is third from left in the back row.
Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the Navajo code talkers during World War II, has died at age 95.
The Navajo Nation Council confirmed his death, hailing the services and sacrifices made by Navajo warriors.
Kellwood died Monday at the Veterans Hospital in Phoenix, according to an obituary posted at a local mortuary. He served in the First Marine Division and fought during World War II in the Pacific front, seeing battle in Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa.
As a boy, Kellwood had been spanked in school for daring to speak Navajo. But his language skills would later prove indispensable in US war efforts.
The Marines tweeted a video of Kellwood singing the Marines' hymn in Navajo and wrote: "Honor the fallen. Yesterday, one of the last remaining Navajo code talkers passed away at 95 years old."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/us/navajo-code-talker-joe-hosteen-kellwood-obit/
