Friday, June 07, 2002
Windtalkers
The movie Windtalkers, which opens next weekend, is a fictionalized tribute to the Navajo "code talkers" of World War II who translated American military communications into the Navajo language, thus creating a code the Japanese were unable to break (even as the United States broke the Japanese codes).
Advocates of bilingual education point to the code talkers as justification for bilingual education. They forget that the code talkers also had to speak English, which is something all too many "graduates" of bilingual education are simply unable to do.
It also turns out, (thanks James Robbins in National Review Online today) that the Germans anticipated such an American strategy and sent spies to learn Indian languages.
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