It is what their descendants are working to maintain today.

And it is what gives the Code Talker story its deepest meaning: not that a clever code was invented, but that a living language survived, against deliberate effort to destroy it, and proved indispensable at the moment of greatest need.

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The Numbers Behind the Program

The question of how many Navajo men served as Code Talkers is one that popular accounts often handle with false precision.

The number 420 appears frequently.