AN UNTOLD STORY........

       HOW COME I DON'T LIVE IN ARIZONA????? SO TIRED OF FALLING BACK IN THE FALL AND SPRINGING FORWARD IN THE SPRING!  IT TAKES ME A WEEK TO GET WITH THE NEW PROGRAM  EVERY TIME.....MOVE? PROBABLY NOT!
    Watching National Geographic last night when the "CODE TALKERS" came up....It was what helped us win the war with Japan in WWII....... I was about 9 .......but on down the line our neighbor was one of those CODE TALKERS......who helped win the war.  Franklin Scott, was his name.  He was a Navajo who spoke the language the Japanese could not break......Navajo was never written down!......so the Japanese could not learn it!  Chief , as our family called our neighbor..... was a  nice man.....he was an electrician at the Diamond Match Factory in our small town.  He and his family were our neighbors......and good ones.....his privates had been shot up during the war and he could not have children......so he and his wife Arlene.....lucked out when her sister.....who had a baby every year and lived in Telluride or Rico  gave them one of her babies....We loved their little David.  They also had an older boy.....and a little girl...such a nice sister......My parents had taken a taxidermist course when they were with the Bell Telephone Co. and had continued with it as I grew up.  Chief would not go into Dad's  shop when he did a  bear rug as he felt it was some relative.......when Dad died he ask us if he could put some deer horns and sage brush on his grave.....never knew why?
      My mother also took a Navajo baby...... who was very sick into our home and raised her until mom died at 58......Linda was 13.  My father could not deal with a teenage girls at his age and Linda was sent to Shiprock, NM to an Indian school to finish her education and learn the legends of her people......she had a rough time adjusting to the Indians ways but finally got her life on track and died early of diabetes.  I had left home and did not know Linda.......the younger sisters were all for it .....my father was not. YAT-TA-HEY CHADONIE......AGOSHA?  Hello friend, where are you going?
     My oldest daughter Pam knew Linda and her grandparents,,,,but the twins were 2 when Mom died and all of this changed......I just thought this story would be of interest to the great-grandchildren some day.......OR NOT!  It is just one of those stories that slip through the cracks of any family.