Robert H. Yazzie

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Robert H. Yazzie

Birth
Death
29 May 2006 (aged 81)
Burial
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Section GG Row 01 Site 35
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Navaho 'code talker' of World War II, PFC in the US Marine Corps. The 'code talkers' saved many lives by using their native language as a code, a code that the enemy could never break. In 2003 Robert received the Congressional Silver Medal for Distinguished Service. He had grown up on a reservation in Arizona and enlisted in the Marines at age seventeen. He passed away in Nashville, Tennesee just one day shy of his 82nd birthday.

Navaho 'code talker' of World War II, PFC in the US Marine Corps. The 'code talkers' saved many lives by using their native language as a code, a code that the enemy could never break. In 2003 Robert received the Congressional Silver Medal for Distinguished Service. He had grown up on a reservation in Arizona and enlisted in the Marines at age seventeen. He passed away in Nashville, Tennesee just one day shy of his 82nd birthday.

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  • Maintained by: Lisa
  • Originally Created by: jrrmr910
  • Added: Jun 1, 2006
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14472403/robert_h-yazzie: accessed ), memorial page for Robert H. Yazzie (30 May 1924–29 May 2006), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14472403, citing Middle Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Lisa (contributor 47155679).