Code Talker

A Code Talker Enlists

After Anthony Etherin’s “Too long I go, no gig, no loot.”

During World War II, more than four hundred Navajo talkers were employed by the Marine Corps.

Too long I go,
no java, none—
no guru, gone—
no Navajo,
no gig, no loot.

Too far away, 
a dot was I.
Moody men eye
key enemy doom.
I saw today
a war afoot.

Too long I go,
no java, none—
no guru, gone—
no Navajo,
no gig, no loot.

Pedro Poitevin

Taking of Iwo Jima
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