One place you don’t want to miss when driving along Route 66 in New Mexico is the Gallup Cultural Center. The center covers so much of American history but one of their most fascinating exhibits is on the Navajo Code Talkers. These code talkers were crucial to our success during World War II and never once was their code broken. I had the incredible honor of chatting with Dr. Zonnie Gorman, daughter of one of the original code talkers, Carl Gorman. Not only did she walk me through the history, s

The Navajo Code Talkers, a group of 29 men, were recruited to create and utilize a code in their Navajo language. They were used in every major battle in the Pacific theatre. Zonnie Gorman tells the importance of remembering their stories. | HISTORY