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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.

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., offers condolences to familyWINDOW ROCK, Ariz.

John Brown Jr. receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush at a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda on July 26, 2001.

A Navajo Code Talker who was part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II has died.