LOS ANGELES – Navajo Code Talker David E. Patterson, Sr., USMC, wants to go this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 16 in New York and your vote can help him. Patterson has been nominated as one of the 30 military veteran finalists to attend the game.
He is the Los Angeles Dodgers nominee.
Navajo Code Talker David E. Patterson, Sr., USMC
David E. Patterson, Sr. 90, lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. He is among an elite group of marines who helped create the only unbroken code in modern military history. As one of the Navajo Code Talkers, David and other Navajos coded and decoded classified military dispatches during World War II using a code derived from their Navajo language. He served in the US Marine Corps from 1943-1945.
After Patterson was discharged, he went to college in Oklahoma and New Mexico, becoming a social worker. He married and raised his family on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. He worked for the Navajo Nation's Division of Social Services until retiring in 1987.
In 2001 he was awarded the Silver Congressional Medal of Honor and up until last year volunteered in a Shiprock school on the Navajo Indian Reservation as a foster grandparent.
The voting event is sponsored by MLB and People magazine, of these 90 participants only 30 will be nominated, one to represent each major league baseball team. So, if you would like to send him to the All Star game, please follow this link to cast your vote ».
Just click the icon for the LA Dodgers , vote now and vote often. Also, one of the Veterans will be honored by People magazine.
Voting began yesterday and continues until June 30. You need not be a major league baseball fan to vote, just a fan of Navajo Code Talkers.
posted June 10, 2013 7:40 am edt