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Santa Fe National Cemetery

Memorials	:	50
Location	:	Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, USA
Phone	:	(505) 988-6400
Coordinate	:	35.6989365, -105.9500656
Description	:	Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed federal holidays except Memorial Day. Visitation Hours: Sunrise to Sunset. Santa Fe National Cemetery is located within the city limits of Santa Fe, N.M., approximately one mile northwest of the main plaza. Notable burials In 2001, the following Navajo Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Silver Medal: Ned David Becenti, a native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on September 15, 1942. Cpl. Becenti was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II and served into December 1945. Becenti died October 11, 2002 (Section 23, Site 309). Carl... Read More	Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed federal holidays except Memorial Day. Visitation Hours: Sunrise to Sunset. Santa Fe National Cemetery is located within the city limits of Santa Fe, N.M., approximately one mile northwest of the main plaza. Notable burials In 2001, the following Navajo Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Silver Medal: Ned David Becenti, a native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on September 15, 1942. Cpl. Becenti was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II and served into December 1945. Becenti died October 11, 2002 (Section 23, Site 309). Carl Csinnijinni, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on July 11, 1942. Cpl. Csinnijinni was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Csinnjinni's honor was posthumous; he died December 18, 1991 (Section Z, Site 477). Ray Foghorn, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on March 26, 1943. He served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, until December 30, 1945. Foghorn's honor was posthumous. He died August 5, 1999 (Section X, Site 619). Ross Haskie, a Navajo and native of Arizona, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 25, 1942. Cpl. Haskie was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and one of the first to see action. One of the original twenty-nine Code Talkers Chester Nez credited Haskie and two others with creating the code. Haskie's honor was posthumous; he died September 12, 1976 (Section Y, Site 529). Johnson Housewood, a Navajo and native of Arizona, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in September 1942. PFC Housewood was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Housewood's honor was posthumous. He was killed in action in Guam July 21, 1944 (Section U, Site 324). Leo Kirk, a Navajo and native of Arizona, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on December 7, 1943. Pvt. Kirk was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kirk's honor was posthumous; he was killed in action in Okinawa, April 15, 1945 (Section Q, Site 330). Ralph Morgan, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on October 3, 1942. PFC Morgan was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Morgan's honor was posthumous; he was killed in action in New Guinea, December 30, 1943 (Section Q, Site 42). Sam Morgan, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 28, 1943. PFC Morgan was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Morgan's honor was posthumous; he was killed in action on Iwo Jima, February 20, 1945 (Section Q, Site 6). Chester Nez was the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers. A Navajo and native of New Mexico, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942. Nez, along with twenty-eight other Marines, was recruited to create a secret code for transmitting military messages from the Navajo language. Nez was stationed in the Pacific Theater during World War II, where he was among the first of the Code Talkers to see action and served into 1945. Cpl. Nez reenlisted during the Korean War, serving 1950-1953, according to the Veterans History Project. Nez published his memoir in 2011 and died in 2014 (Section 21, Site 555). Sammy Silversmith, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on April 26, 1943. PFC Silversmith was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II and served into November 1946. Silversmith's honor was posthumous; he died February 7, 2001 (Section 11, Site 23). Frank Toledo, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on October 17, 1942. Cpl. Toledo served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, until January 1946. A photograph of Toledo, and cousin, Preston Toledo, relaying coded information was included in a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 2006. This image made them a face of the Code Talkers for many. Toledo's honor was posthumous; he died August 14, 1970 (Section V, Site 1780). Preston Toledo, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on October 17, 1942. PFC Toledo served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, until December 26, 1945. A photograph of Toledo, and cousin, Frank Toledo, relaying coded information during the war was included in a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 2006. This image made them a face of the Code Talkers for many.. Toledo died December 15, 2004 (Section 13, Site 648). Frank Chee Willetto, Sr., a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on March 26, 1943. PFC Willetto served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Willetto later served in the government of the Navajo Nation, as a tribal councilman (1974-86), Supreme Council Judge, and President of the Pueblo Pintado Chapter (1986-2012). He died June 23, 2012 (Section 20, Site 599). Daniel Yazzie, a Navajo and native of New Mexico, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on March 26, 1943. Cpl. Yazzie was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II, until February 6, 1946. In 2001 the Navajo Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Silver Medal. Yazzie's honor was posthumous; he died February 2, 1972 (Section V, Site 1886).

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