Arizona: The Navajo Code Talkers with Lindsay Sherbondy

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In today’s episode, Sharon is joined by artist, designer, and mom, Lindsay Sherbondy. Together, they talk about the Navajo Nation’s WWII Code Talkers. This elite group of men created and used a code used for relaying information between military units during World War II. The Navajo code is the only spoken military code never to have been deciphered, and the code talkers were instrumental in the victories of several battles during the war. They returned as unsung heroes because of the classified nature of their mission, living with their wartime secrets for more than 25 years before receiving official recognition by the U.S. government.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. Oh my goodness, I have my friend who are jokingly to say that her name is Lindsay Letters.
0:10.0	That's not her real last name, but her account is Lindsay Letters, and so I think of her as Lindsay Letters in my mind.
0:19.0	She agreed to let me call her Lindsay Letters, and she's just going to call me Sharon say so like that's
0:24.8	my last name so oh my goodness y'all have got to hear this conversation about something
0:31.4	remarkable from the state of Arizona.
0:34.0	So let's dive in.
0:35.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:37.0	And welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.
0:40.0	I am so excited to have you here today,
0:43.0	Lizzi, this has been a long time coming.
0:44.8	I'm such a huge fan.
0:46.2	I've been a fan of yours for many years.
0:48.6	We will out fan you.
0:50.5	I already feel like my whole team my best friends our squad were just like the biggest
0:56.7	supporters of you like Sharon says so cheer uniforms so So tell everybody if they're not already following
1:06.0	Lindsay letters which everybody thinks is your real last name and it's not but I think it's fun to call you Lindsay letters.
1:11.5	Tell everybody what you do. So I'm an artist. I am a graphic
1:15.1	designer by trade, but I'm also a painter and a lettering artist and I sell my artwork online at
1:20.2	Lindsay Letters. co. I've been doing it for about 10 years in that regard. And before that I did
1:26.3	wedding invitations but that seems like a hundred years ago. So that's my that's one of my day
1:31.1	jobs. My other day job is I'm a mom and I get to communicate with people over the
1:36.6	internet through Instagram mostly although I'm like a grandma on the on the
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