🫡 R.I.P., John #Kinsel, Sr. [°Jan. 22, 1917 or 1921? – Oct. 19, 2024]🌹😌🫶

#NavajoCodeTalkers #NavajoNation #JohnKinselSr #IwoJima #Guam

Navajo code talker, who played crucial role in WWII, dies at 107 John Kinsel Sr, who served in the Marines as a Navajo code talker transmitting key messages in unbreakable Navajo code in the Pacific, died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday.

#JohnKinselSr was one of the last living Navajo code talkers.
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John Kinsel, Sr. Collection Corporal, Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Bougainville Island (Solomon Islands); Guam (Mariana Islands); Iwo Jima; Pacific Theater.

This weekend we said goodye to #JohnKinselSr
#Navajo #CodeTalker A man who although he grew up under an system of apartheid,still willingly joined the #USMARINECORP He and other #Navajo helped assure that Many #USMARINES would return home.
His story/video is
Below 😔🙏

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