Caroline Ferriday, a wealthy and beautiful young woman from Connecticut, spent her whole life trying to right the wrongs of the Nazi regime. Initially working to aid French citizens, she turned her efforts specifically to the “Lapins,” a group of women who were arrested for aiding the French Resistance and used for horrific Nazi medical experiments.
Thanks to a beautiful and emotional article published this week in Smithsonian Magazine, the tragic story of Minter Dial has been unearthed much in the same way his Annapolis class ring was discovered back in 1962.
Joe Morris, Sr., decorated Navajo Code Talker, was born April 19, 1926, on the Navajo Nation Reservation at Indian Wells, Arizona. His family had no electricity and he received very little formal education. Morris worked on the family farm tending sheep and horses. He jokingly likened his great grandfather to a drill sergeant, ordering him up early to work and telling him that washing up in the snow would make him stronger. Morris was 17 and working in an ore mine when he was drafted (he had lied about his age on the draft card to get a job). Trained at the Navajo Communications School at Camp Pendleton, he spent two years in the Pacific with the 6th Marine Division 22nd Regiment as a code talker making stops in Guam, the Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa and Tinstao, China until he was discharged as a corporal in 1946.
Morris passed away July 17, 2011 at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, in Loma Linda, California.
Posted by interactive content and community manager Kacey Hill
