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The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.

Father Gilbert Schneider with St. Berard Parish in Navajo, N.M., stands in front of the house Monday where the body of homicide victim Sister Marguerite Bartz was found.

23 in Gallup. Begay, a legislative liaison with the Navajo Nation's Department of Education, was originally charged with great bodily harm and bond was set at $75,000, which allowed him to be released with payment of $7,500. A week later the charge was increased to vehicular homicide and the bond raised to $200,000 after Costley died.

As members of an elite group of Navajo Marines approach their 90s, they know there's little time left to tell the story about how they used their native language to confound the Japanese during World War II.

The Chamber Music Festival in Ruidoso brings world-class classical music to the mountains of southeastern New Mexico for the fifth year this summer.

A second Navajo Code Talker has died within a week. Thomas Claw died Tuesday after a battle with cancer at age 87.