[twobjshelbys]

In high school I became a WWII history junkie. I knew two people who where there - and didn't realize the significance until I was well into college. One was a colonel at D-day and another (my very best friend ever, a farmer the smartest guy I ever knew, and an "uncle" as he was my dad's age) was on Iwo Jima for the first flag raising. Frank passed away when I was in college but he always told me that he wouldn't have survived were it not "for the Indian". Well, years later we found that those were the Code Talkers. After we moved to Colorado for the second time I had the greatest honor in the world of meeting and talking with one of the original 29 - Sgt. Allen Dale June. My daughter and I were invited to his Blessing Way housewarming ceremony. I've never been so humbled in my life.