This is a touching and riveting multi-media story about the original famous Navajo Code Talkers. This very first group – the First Twenty-nine – was the pilot project in 1942 who created the first Navajo code. 

As a recognized historian and the daughter of the oldest Navajo Code Talker, Carl Gorman, Zonnie Gorman expertly weaves her personal connection and intimate knowledge with thirty years of archival research and collected first account stories.

Zonnie will be giving an abridged version of her signature lecture, Growing Up With Heroes, at Navajo Middle School. Zonnie loves when she can share the story of her father and the other Navajo Code Talkers with Navajo youth.

Join Zonnie Gorman in Virginia for a public lecture hosted by Radford University. Zonnie is giving her lecture, Growing Up With Heroes: The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II - A Daughter's Journey.

Zonnie Gorman returns to her high school, Verde Valley School, to present her journey of Growing Up With Hereos. Zonnie is the daughter of Dr. Carl N. Gorman, who was one of the original First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers of World War II.