{"id":6484,"date":"2014-06-05T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:12:47","slug":"last-original-navajo-code-talker-chester-nez-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/06\/05\/last-original-navajo-code-talker-chester-nez-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Last original Navajo Code Talker Chester Nez passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away in his Albuquerque home.<\/p>\n

Nez was recruited with 28 other Native Americans by the U.S. Marines to create a code the Japanese couldn\u2019t crack during World War II.<\/p>\n

Nez went into kidney failure Wednesday morning. He was 93.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people have met him,\u201d said Judy Avila, a friend and author of Nez\u2019s memoir. \u201cWhen you meet him, you\u2019re charmed by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was the last living member of the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of people and naysayers who said, \u2018How can these young Navajo men help us?\u2019 But it turned out to be the only unbroken spoken code in modern warfare,\u201d said Avila.<\/p>\n

After Avila wrote the memoir, so many people showed up to a 2011 book signing in Albuquerque that the store sold out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just happy that all these people reading (the memoir) will know what my Navajo people did for this country,\u201d said Nez.<\/p>\n

After the success of the original 29 code talkers, more were recruited. Avila believes about 400 Navajos were enlisted.<\/p>\n

The original 29 Code Talkers were given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001.<\/p>\n

Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.koat.com\/ \u2026 ter-nez-passes-away\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away in his Albuquerque home. Nez was recruited with 28 other Native Americans by the U.S. Marines to create a code the Japanese couldn\u2019t crack during World War II. Nez went into kidney failure Wednesday morning. He was 93. \u201cMany people have met him,\u201d said Judy Avila, a friend and author of Nez\u2019s memoir. \u201cWhen you meet him, you\u2019re charmed by him.\u201d He was the last living member of the group. \u201cThere were a lot of people and naysayers who said, \u2018How can these young Navajo men help us?\u2019 But it turned out to be the only unbroken spoken code in modern warfare,\u201d said Avila. After Avila wrote the memoir, so many people showed up to a 2011 book signing in Albuquerque that the store sold out. \u201cI\u2019m just happy that all these people reading (the memoir) will know what my Navajo people did for this country,\u201d said Nez. After the success of the original 29 code talkers, more were recruited. Avila believes about 400 Navajos were enlisted. The original 29 Code Talkers were given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001. Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.koat.com\/ \u2026 ter-nez-passes-away\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[456,1209,1957],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-code-talker","tag-navajo","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}