The Choctaw Nation are very rightly proud of their Code Talking soldiers During the annual Choctaw Labor Day Festival in 1986, Chief Hollis E. Roberts presented posthumous Choctaw Nation Medals of Valor to the families of the Code Talkers. This was the first official recognition the Choctaw Code Talkers had been given. On November 3, 1989, in recognition of the important role the Choctaw Code Talkers played during World War I, the French government presented Chief Roberts with the "Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Merite" (the Knight of the National Order of Merit), the highest honor France can bestow. Ben Carterby Birth - Dec. 11, 1893 Death - Feb. 6, 1953 OKLA PFC CO D 141 INFANTRY WWI Choctaw Indian Code Talker WWI Burial - Nashoba Indian Cemetery Pushmataha County Oklahoma, USA http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=25820&GRid=10867226& Ben Carterby is on this photograph ... but I don't know which one he is !!
