Illustrated Daily; The Prince; Navajo Code Talkers

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to you at this particular time one of the world's greatest foremost entertainers, a young man who will be on the dial is one of the greatest singers of all time, Prince Bobby John. Who's Prince? Who? L is for the way you look at me. Prince Bobby John. Oh, is for the only one I see. Prince Bobby John. V is very, very extraordinary. Bobby Jack of the ink spots? E is even more than any one that you're a doorker.

You've never heard him. Love is all that I can give to you. Love is more than just to give you to you. Oh, I know who he is. Baby, I say love was me behind you. Oh, that was great. Thank you. Have fun. I believe I was three years old, but I was first asked the same all the stage, a little kindergarten school, all you had to do is stand and just sing with your voice flow. Then I became within myself a childless band leader and we would get together and pretend we had a big band in the streets and I would be the band leader. I would be the singer, lead singer.

We need somebody like that back on the set. Somebody that can do something wild, get away with it, do it. That's life. There we go. You don't mean it. You have to earn everything. You ask why am I and why do I look? I dress and carry myself in such elegant band and for less matter. First of all, I was born in that matter. Second, I was taught never to live different off stage than you do on stage. You know what's over there? The governor's over there. Do I give a bag of beans? Do I stay home every night and read my magazine? Am I fratig? Cause we've lost a spark. Is there a patig when it starts turning dark on when

evening shadows creep? Do I lose any sleep over you? Do I worry? You can bet your life I do. I had one time I thought I was going to be an operatic singer. I look to sitting over. I became attached to it all over certain. To make a long story short, we accepted staying here. A little bit after a while, something would haywire. Albuquerque was

ready for me as a performer entertainer domestically. They were. I happened to have been at that particular time the first interracial married couple to enter the city to stay. I stood fastly put within myself that I would stay here to prove that decent, respectable people should not have to run from anyone. Whether it's to clue Cook's crimes or anyone, I've been here every sense. And if you notice, I don't have the same type of clothes that other people have. Instead, not that I try to address or I'll do anyone, I set a pattern in my own competition. I don't follow someone else's competition. I set my own pattern in competition.

I am the most idealistic individual you'll ever meet in your life. He says, hey, Prince, you know what you are, you are a pattern that someone just cut out of an elegant Esquire magazine to paste around and let the world see what elegance is like because it went away so fast. He says, you are that pattern. Don't ever change. I said, don't worry, I'll never change. How do you do it? How have you been, man? Pretty good. You looking good. I feel pretty good. Oh, I'm trying to get pretty. How's it going? I don't know. I'm trying to get pretty good.

There was a message that came out. They wanted a 30-30th Navajo for a special duty and we said, gee, we probably did give us some of this Marine Corps blues and we probably have office job and that's the special duty. We were thinking in those terms. We never thought that we'd get right in the midst of the war. They sent recruiters out into this area and recruited a bunch of high school kids. They were really kids. Someone really, you know, 14, 15, 16 years old and I joined the Marine in 1942, which was the day I graduated on May 5th at 10 o'clock in the morning,

I graduated, but two o'clock in the same afternoon I joined the Marine Corps. Well, we were childhood sweethearts in the school. Did you see him off when he left? Yes, I saw him off. What was that like? We said, gee, the Japanese. They taught us, though, the Japanese were about to land in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Now, the less we consider this land are, see, Indian land, so we always say that we're fighting for our land. It was Philip Johnston, the son of a missionary who grew up with the Navajoers and spoke their language, who convinced the Marine Corps that Navajo could be the code they were looking for. My understanding, the reason the United States Marine chose the Navajoers, the Navajoers, the people were largely number one. Number two, he was not a written language. Number three,

very few people outside Navajo, knew the Navajo language. Oh, yeah, chillin' on it. The coding machines in those days were quite primitive and sometimes took as much as 25 hours to decode. A code was needed that could be instantaneously translated. When it comes back into the headquarters, back there, it's translated back into English. So you had to be good with English language as well as Navajo. They themselves then decided that just using the Navajo language had its potential problems anyway, because like any code, repetition is what eventually breaks it. And they sat down and came up with a code in Navajo. This means that even another Navajo listening in, if he was captured by the enemy and forced to send in on these communications, that even he wouldn't know what they're saying.

Well, they didn't have any meaning at all through an ordinary Navajo. Each individual has to at least memorize 400 words in order to be a member of the code bomb. Carl Garman recall some of those code words. He's our fighter planes. We call them the Hawk, Hawk and Navajo. We had a name for battleship. They don't suffer kind of. That is Aggie. That's the battleship. The bombs we call them aches. A Yenji. Japanese, they call them Benazosa. Benazosa means narrow eyes. To my knowledge, and according to the record, there was never one transmission that was ever screwed up or messed up, either in transmission or in translation.

That every message that they ever sent was sent perfectly and perfectly translated. And it worked. The Japanese never broke the code. And its use on Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima affirmed the United States stronghold in the South Pacific. The war was near its end. We never thought that we were making history. We just thought that we were part of the Marines. If I have known that we were making history, I would have cared a notebook and wrote everything that I did. It says Bogeville, Emeroo, Guam, Okinawa. One Marine did keep a record on the only thing available. His witness was his canteen cup. But when they returned, there were no flags, no parades, no heroes welcome. Without fanfare, they went quietly home. Their secrets still carefully guarded. And who's who on Navajo land today?

The common denominator is that they were a code talker. They learned the necessity of getting along in both cultures. And I think by and large, they made a tremendous success of it. And this is the lesson that they are teaching today's generation. The United States isn't just another country. It's ours. And my father being a code talker is also a great inspiration to us. The Navajo Marines were finally given a place in history. President of the United States officially proclaimed August 14, 1982, Navajo Code Talker's Day. 37 years after World War II ended. But the Navajo is still march proudly. And the Navajo Code of Honor, Pride, and Patriotism remains to this day unbroken. By the way, John has a hotline to the government, just in case something does decide to land.

But so far he hasn't had to use it yet. When we come back, we'll meet New Mexico. New Mexico. New Mexico.

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