Top, Navajo
Code Talker heros, from left, kneeling, Jimmy Begay, Bill Toledo,
"Original 29" John Brown Jr., Frank Chee Willetto, Alfred Peaches;
and, standing, from left, Willard Oliver, Sydney Bedonie, Frank
Thompson, Teddy Draper Sr., Guy Clauschee, Edward Anderson, Samuel
Tso, Carl Todacheenie and Joe Price, attend the Navajo Code Talker
Association Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve. Toledo, above,
stands by a banner during the dinner which was held in
commemoration of the late Dr. Samuel Billison Sr., Draper, left,
stands at attention as he pledge of alleiance is recited. (Special
to the Times - Donovan Quintero)