Casino honors Code Talkers
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Navajo Code Talker Lloyd Oliver is guided by his grandson, Steve Oliver, to a bus heading to Albuquerque from Fire Rock Casino on Sunday. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Bernie Dotson
Staff writer

CHURCHROCK — It ended up changing his life, that day Lloyd Oliver volunteered for the United States Marine Corps, he thought only of getting off the reservation and serving his country.

As an enlisted Marine during the 1940s, Oliver was a Navajo Code Talker — recruited to transmit coded radio messages during World War II.

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