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MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Sept. 2, 2005) -- During World War II, about 400 Native Americans enlisted as code talkers to aid the Marine Corps with a secret communication the enemy never broke. Pvt. Keylon W. Yazzie, Platoon 3097, Company I, plans to uphold the legacy of his Navajo ancestors by following the footsteps of a group of Marines who left a lasting mark on the Marine Corps - a mark of traditions, values, history and language. "My great grandfather Harding Yazzie Sr. and my great uncle George Kirk were code talkers and they inspired me to...

After more than 40 wars, Dale Dye knows his stuff--and those are just the battles he has fought in films. The veteran of Platoon , Saving Private Ryan, and Band of Brothers began his military-movie-consulting career after racking up three Purple Hearts in the Marines in Vietnam. At age 60, he tweaks scripts, whips actors into shape, directs, and acts; he plays himself on HBO's Entourage, training the main character to be "Aquaman." Not only does he appear as a general in The Great Raid, starring Benjamin Bratt and based on the World War II mission to save 500 American...

The last Comanche Code-Talker, Charles Chibitty has passed away. He died at around 4 p.m. today in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 83 years of age, just shy of 84. Charlie had been ill and in the hospital for several months. He was a friend to many of us and a good father, husband and soldier.

This crappy politically correct movie was one that MGM thought would do well. from Box Office Mojo: Production Budget: $115 million Marketing Costs: $30 million Est. Gross-to-Date: $30,610,000 (as of June 28) The estimated gross has gone up to 38 million, a month later, but that's still pretty pathetic for a movie company that spent $115 million on production and $30 million on promotion. I'm sure they thought that this would be one of those extremely successful war movies, but they didn't realize that the people who like whiny movies are not the type who like war movies. Liberals like...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Last Christmas, thieves stole Nicolas Cage's $100,000 Porsche and ditched it in a lake. There was a time when the news would have devastated the Academy Award-winning actor, whose auto collection once included a Lamborghini owned by the shah of Iran. But not the new Nicolas Cage. "I'm actually trying to be a little more spiritual and try to condense things down," Cage says in an interview to promote his new movie, "Windtalkers," opening today. "I will always love automobiles as art, but what gets a little scary is when you start to worship them like...

Don't be fooled by the ads for director John Woo's new World War II movie, "Windtalkers." The star of the movie isn't Nicolas Cage or Christian Slater. Or the multi-million-dollar special effects employed for dramatic battle scenes. Or even the flag-waving, feel-good patriotism so coveted by post-9/11 American moviegoers. No, the star of "Windtalkers," which opens Friday, is an ancient language - gorgeously complex, maddeningly impenetrable to non-native speakers - without which America might not have won the war. It's Navajo. The language of the Navajo Indians was used during World War II by a select group of top-secret communications...

Santa Monica, CA - On Thursday, July 26, 2001, the United States Congress will bestow one of its highest honors, the Congressional Gold Medal, on the 29 Navajo Code TalkersTM who developed the unbreakable military code that helped the United States to victory in World War II. President George W. Bush is expected to attend and present the medals to 4 of the 5 living Navajo code-creators and the families of the others. MGM will host a reception to follow the medal ceremony in celebration of the honorees and to herald its epic motion picture Windtalkers, the first film to...