Noel Lyn Smith Farmington Daily Times
See Navajo Code Talkers through the lens of Kenji Kawano at new Navajo Nation Museum exhibit
WINDOW ROCK, Arizona — Shirley Haswood got teary-eyed when she saw the photograph of her late father in the exhibit about the Navajo Code Talkers that opened this week at the Navajo Nation Museum here.
Standing next to the photo at the opening reception on Aug. 12, Haswood explained that she was an adult when she learned that her father, Johnny Alfred, was a code talker.
"We knew he was in the Marines, but he never told us, 'I'm a code talker," Haswood said.
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