David Curley, a native of New Mexico, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp.  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 5, 1942. PFC Curley was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II and served until March 20, 1945. Curley was one of the twenty-nine original Navajo Code Talkers who developed a secret code devised from the Navajo language to transmit messages for the USMC. He was also among the first of the Navajo Code Talkers to see action. In July 2001, the original Navajo Code Talkers received the Congressional Gold Medal. Curley's honor was posthumous. He died in 1979.
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