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Military museum idea gaining momentum

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Gallup’s current prominent historian, Martin Link, has taken an idea to the favorable momentum stage of development and is using that for leverage in his quest to establish a Military Museum in America’s Most Patriotic Small Town.

One of Link’s first shots in this battle was to establish a public information...

Congratulations to the RMCHCS Employee of the Month!

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Lisa is the ED Coder and also works as a Patient Care Technician. Patient Care is her passion. She loves taking care of patients.

Many of the patients know her by name and feel comfortable when they see her in the ED. Lisa always has a smile on her face and is willing to assist in every department of the hospital.

She goes out of her way to put the needs of others before her own. She is one of the coordinators for the Breast Cancer Awareness Walk hosted by RMCHCS and enjoys volunteering in the community whenever needed.

Greenlight a Vet: Show Support for Veterans

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America’s veterans are some of our nation’s bravest, hardest-working men and women. However, it’s hard to show them the appreciation they deserve when, back home and out of uniform, they’re more camouflaged than ever. Greenlight A Vet is a campaign to establish visible national support for our veterans by changing one light in your home to green.

Visit: www.greenlightavet.com for more information.

Navajo activists share experience during 1969 Alcatraz Island takeover

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At the age 19, a young Navajo by the name of Jean Whitehorse was given a one-way bus ticket to Oakland, Calif., during the late 1960s. She traveled by Greyhound, her first time on a bus, to Los Angeles, into San Francisco and across the bridge to Oakland, where she arrived at 2 am.

Under a relocation program headed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, she was told to travel there to receive job training. Little did she know that she was going to be a part of a major historical event that would change the lives of many Native Americans.

“The next day when I stepped out in the street, there were tons and tons of people. Traffic, noise, and you are just lost,” she said. “Lost in...

A Navajo Code Talker’s wish

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TUBA CITY, Ariz. -As a Navajo Nation Code Talker, Sergeant Major Dan Akee is a national treasure whose military service is a testament to freedom and cultural perseverance.  He is one of the few remaining Code Talkers left on the Navajo Nation.

Akee’s hearing is failing and his eyesight has diminished. He gets around with the assistance of a walker and the help of his son Danny.

As he’s grown older, Dan Akee has expressed a lingering desire to live in the home he built for his family that now sits dormant and unoccupied. The house, which was built in the mid 50s, is in severe need of roof repair and overall renovation.

He often reminisces about raising his children and...

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