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Hear the Untold Story of a Canadian Code Talker from World War II | Short Film Showcase


if we can just finish up with you
reintroducing yourself again or you
state your name and if you’d like to say
a few quick words I’m Charles check
accountants I’m a mentee and have
English and free India I love my country
I don’t everything they asked me to do
as well
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was all Cardinal tomato niggas kintamani
multi vomiting Abby Dalton Sam Stein mum
– Mitch even their little bit of the
earth Capirossi Ayodhya’s some state
montanita Minh subscribe no FEMA and we
will buy a stylish Navajo de son needs
an equivalent you kissed a minute at you
know Matty toe which you organic Akio
Mario Givens to emo
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Charles Montague see hottest is my
nickname Anna give me aya cheeks is my
legacy
Oh text mylegacy cut a chick she’s check
everyone movie do checker Tomkins
critique freeze his name was Charles
Marlon Tompkins but we called him
checker and I am not sure why they
called him checker but there everyone in
my family had some sort of a nickname
he got married I think about 1939 or
1940 and shortly after that he joined
the military
I think your nor every kid wanted to
join the army every kid you know you get
three squares a day you know there’s no
word for nothing and but for such young
fellows just couldn’t wait to get in I
think a lot of our brothers and sisters
who went overseas learned a different
lifestyle for the first time people felt
concrete under their feet for the first
time they saw buildings firing 10
stories high and read that all personnel
who could speak an Indian language
report to such-and-such a hanger on
such-and-such a day checker reported he
said there was about 600 Aboriginal
people in there they were broken up into
small groups into the language groups
and given messages to translate back and
forth the Cree came on top
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they had a way of expression every
different type aircraft that they had
tsugumi’s got back Ziggy
that’s a mosquito bomber tsugumi’s is
mosquito and bomber is an explosion in
green epoxy they would attach the
American Air Force and they would talk
to one another and translate how many
aircraft is going in a certain time what
type aircraft bombers they had how many
would be going
they say this is me on the radio and the
other pole earth the other hand would be
interpreting and whatever message was
sent
I don’t think the Germans had a bloody
clue on what the hell was being sent
some foreign code that no one heard of
happy joke I’m going to eat the muffin
dough buck siggy
but Easter only under sub-servicer but
we must stay in Eau de commencer 7 to 8
o hadouken city since Americans couldn’t
understand what they were saying they
were just translating messages fine I
didn’t said the hell with it we’ll use
their own Indians
so then a guy is there enough it’s
worldwide
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he didn’t like the war because of this
destruction he saw and the action that
he was in I told Checker it’s about time
our nice tiles are getting some credit
for what they did and that’s what he
told me that he was a code talker during
the war I asked him why he hadn’t told
me earlier he said I was sworn to
secrecy and that’s why he never said a
word
holy smokes Frank
remember these that’s the kind of
pictures I used to take when we jr. and
she old school it’s great that was in
the wintertime the checkers right there
yeah he looked serious he was never
serious in the military this must have
been the very first day in uniform they
both look like hell you know he couldn’t
have been add that uniform the person
he’s trying to look taller than me you
know that’s a good picture
you look serious as hell really brings
back lots of memories lots of good
memories it’s really good
you
he didn’t want to lead the parade he
just wanted the parade to be a parade
and he could have walked it from the
sides he was a great man
gave his heart
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although you can dissolve the three
Indians that fact doesn’t matter I done
rose ask
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if you listen to me I’m sorry and taking
up your time this is goodbye I guess
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you
you
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you
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