Ira Hayes was an Apache from Arizona.

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He was one of 6 men who were pictured raising the US flag on Iwo
Jima where 30,000 US soldiers were wounded or kiled.

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I believe that Ira hayes was probably a Wind Talker.  The US Marines used
the almost unknown languages of the native peoples as a secret code
to get messages into, out of and across the island. The existence
of the wind talkers was almost never acknowledged until decades
after the event.

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The men who were wind talkers were sworn to secrecy. Up until the 
day that Ira Hayes died in poverty and misery he would not have
been able to speak of his status as a wind talker.