President Donald Trump and Navajo Code Talkers

[Music] the co-chairman for president thank you honorable president of discreet United States of America President Trump thank you for inviting us Navajo code talkers to the capital into the White House of this great nation we call United States today we have with us three of the 13 surviving Navajo code talkers of World War two first we have fleming begain fleming became is 97 years old - oliver veteran of World War 2 he survived a battle of Tarawa his landing craft was blown up and he literally have to swim to the beach to survive also on Saipan you also Leonard on Tinian where he got shut up real badly survived one year naval hospital we have Thomas became also one of the code talkers who were on Iwo Jima a tough battle quarter three Marine Division landed on a whoa fifth Marine Division he was a part of the code talkers within the fifth Marine Division also as if Marine Corps was not enough he listened to the United States Army serve in the Korean War survived that awful battle and Coulson my name is Peter McDonald I'm the president of the 13 surviving Navajo code talkers I went in I'm 90 years old I went in when I was 15 years old in lyrtle 1944 I was with a 1st marine brigade on Guam and then went on to North China with six marine division to get those Japanese in northern China to surrender they didn't want to surrender but it took 1st Marine Division six marine division to get them to surrender eventually we had a separate treaty ceremony in Tsingtao China October 25th 1945 Navajo code talkers in the early part of World War two the enemy was freaking every military code that was being used in the Pacific this created a huge problem for strategizing against the enemy eventually suggestion was made in early 1942 February 42 essentially to use Navajo language as a code Marine Corps recruited 29 young Navajos not tell them than what they are ravine recruited forth because this was a top-secret operation they were just s you want to join the Marines you want to fight the enemy come join the Marines so they volunteered twenty-nine young Navajos join the Marines in 1942 after going through a boot camp past boot camp with flying colors combat training the same thing then into Marine Corps communication school past that then they were separated from all the rest of Marines took them into a top-secret location just east of San Diego Camp Elliott that's where they created a military code to be used in the Pacific after creating 260 code words the twenty-nine young Marines half of them were sent overseas to join the 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Division was getting ready to go on the first offensive movement in the Pacific Guadalcanal on August 7 1942 75 years ago 1st Marine Division hit the beach on up riches of Guadalcanal with 15 Navajo code talkers this was the first parent where the Navajo coat was to be tested in actual battle to test see how our memory would be under heavy I am the fire well three weeks after the landing general Vandergriff commander of the 1st Marine Division sent work back to United States saying this Navajo code is terrific the enemy never understood it he said we don't understand it either but it works send us some more Navajos so that opened up the gate for United States Marine Corps San Diego to start recruiting more and more Navajos using the same tactics you want to fight you want to join the Marines you and a weirdest beautiful blue uniform come join the Marines so we all volunteered that's how he went in that's how he went in that's how I went in boot camp combat training communication school then we all get separated go to that special top secret Navajo code school to learn to code initially 260 code words all subject to memory only eventually by the time the war ended 1945 there were 400 of us that went to war and also a codeword screw to 600 code words subject to memory only in every battle to communication network were established Navajo communication network for all top secret confidential messages the second Network English network for all other messages in every battle from the frontline Beach command post command ship all other ships code talkers were used on the island of Iwo major Koerner said the first 48 hours of bedlam over 800 message were sent by the 5th Marine Division only the first 48 hours over 800 message major Connor also said without Navajo Marines would never have taken the island of iwo jima so thank you very much the 13 of us we still have one mission that mission is to build national Navajo code talker Museum we want to preserve this unique World War two history for our children grandchildren your children your grandchildren to go through that museum why because what we did truly represents who we are as Americans America we know is composed of diverse community we have different languages different skills different talents and different religions but when our way of life is threatened like the freedom and liberty that we all cherish we come together as one and when we come together as one we are invincible we cannot be defeated that's why we need this national Navajo code talker Museum so that our children the future generation can go through that museum and learn why America is so strong thank you very much for listening [Applause] that was so incredible and now I don't have to make my speech I had the most beautiful speech written out I was so proud of it look and I thought you would leave out yo Jima but you got that in the end too and I want to tell you you said you're 90 years old that's great cuz you have good genes that means the press has got me to kick around for a long time that was beautiful I love that and I loved your delivery and the code talkers are amazing and seriously it is what I said so what I'm gonna do is give you my speech and I want you to hold that and I know you like me so you'll save it but that was so well delivered from the heart that was from the heart yes so I want to give you this speech because I don't want to bore them with saying the same thing you just said and you said it better believe me as you said it right from here and I mean it from there too and you have a lot of great friends Tom Cole is here and you know Tom and you know Jeff so I want to thank you both Jeff Dunham I want to thank you both for being here and you two for being here also general Dunford head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and general Kelly and I have to say I said to general Kelly I said general how good here he is right there the chief he's the general and the chief I said how good were these code talkers what was it he said sir you have no idea you have no idea how great they were what they've done for this country and the strength and the bravery and the love that they had for the country and that you have for the country so that was the ultimate statement from general Kelly the importance and I just want to thank you because you have very very special people you were here long before any of us were here although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago they call her Pocahontas but you know what I like you because you are special you are special people you are really incredible people and I will have from the heart from the absolute heart we appreciate what you've done how you've done it the bravery that you displayed and the love that you have for your country Tom I would say that's as as good as it gets wouldn't you say that's as good as you get general Kelly just come up for one second I want to just have you say what you told me a little bit about the code talkers because it really has been learning about you and learning about what you've done has been something that I'd like general Kelly to say to the press go ahead well sorry's you know being associated with the United States Marines it's as much a Colt as it is a service and we never forget our motto of course is semper fidelis always faithful whether you're a young recruit at Parris Island of San Diego or a middle-aged guy from from out west what these men did the advantage they gave our Marines when they invaded Iwo Jima was really and I think it was pointed out was one of the very few factors that allowed us to be to be successful in that island their ability to outwit the Japanese who were you know listening to this wonderful language and had no idea what what that a language like this existed on the earth what they did very small number of men sir made the difference we lost six thousand Marines and 25,000 wounded on that island in 28 days of battle it would have been a lot worse had we not had the Navajo code talkers and I thank you Semper Fidelis [Applause] so they're working on building a Navajo code talkers museum and we will help you okay and we have some pretty good strengths we will help you and you deserve it and I want to thank you all for being here I assume you're the young one in the group are you the young one in the group huh thank you so much for being here you're very special people and without you maybe the results would have been a lot different I've heard that actually the results could have very well been different so on behalf of the United States thank you all very much appreciate it you have all top Marine Corps generals what a group this is a great group thank you all very much thank you I think the tax bill is going very well we had a meeting on it today it's gonna be a tremendous tax cut the biggest in the history of our country you'll have to pay a lot less tax but we're gonna have a tremendous I think we're gonna have great receptivity we've had great great spirit and I will tell you the Republican senators were up if we win we'll get some Democratic senators joining us if we don't win they won't be joining us you understand that but if we win I think we'll probably have a bipartisan bill meaning a number of people are going to come over but I'm not so interested in that we're really interested just in getting it passed again it will be the biggest tax reduction in the history of our country it'll bring jobs it'll bring a lot of income coming into the country buying product etc and I think it's doing very well okay no I think we're gonna have freely I think it's actually I think it's gonna benefit everybody it's going to mostly benefit people looking for jobs more than anything else because we're giving great incentives and we're gonna be bringing back into this country probably in excess of four trillion dollars four trillion that's outside of the country that right now because of our tax laws can't come back in and we will be bringing back at least I think the number will be substantially higher but at least four trillion dollars which will immediately be put to work in this country so I think the tax bill is doing very well and I think the Republicans are going to be very proud of it thank you thank you

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Published: Mon Nov 27 2017

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thank you for this! this should be upvoted so more people see it.