EFCCL's Celebrate Recovery Native Ministries

A Special THANK YOU, 

to the 

 United States Marine Corps  

http://www.usmc.mil

the

Marine Corps League

http://www.mcleague.com 

And

Toys for Tots!

http://www.toysfortots.org

We are so thankful to the United States Marine Corps, the Marine Corps League and Toys for Tots for the wonderful donation of the toys that are distributed on our mission trips. 

Many children and their family's were blessed and continue to be blessed 

because of your hard work and dedication!

Thank you also for your service to us all and the freedoms we all share!

 We especially want to thank the men and women of

the Mc Henry County,  Illinois,

Marine Corps League Detachment 1009

for their direct involvement in 

blessing these children and their families.

Marines remember and will never forget their connection with their Native Brothers!

http://bingaman.senate.gov/features/codetalkers/ 

Who are the Code Talkers?

The Navajo Code Talkers, whose ranks exceed 400 during the course of World War II in the Pacific Theater, have been credited with saving countless lives and hastening the end of the war. The Code Talker's served in all six Marine divisions from 1942 to 1945.

The Code Talker's primary job was to talk and transmit information on tactics, troop movements, orders and other vital battlefield information via telegraphs and radios in their native dialect.  A major advantage of the code talker system was its speed. The method of using Morse code often took hours, where as the Navajos handled a message in minutes.   It has been said that if was not for the Navajo Code Talkers, the Marines would have never taken Iwo Jima. 

 
The Navajo's unwritten language was understood by fewer than 30 non-Navajo's at the time of WWII.  The size and complexity of the language made the code extremely difficult to comprehend, much less decipher.  It was not until 1968 that the code became declassified by the US Government.