http://www.infosecnews.org/chester-nez-last-of-the-world-war-ii-navajo-code-talkers-passes-away-quietly-at-93/
By William Knowles
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
June 5, 2014
Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away quietly
in his sleep at his Albuquerque home.
Nez served with the United States Marines in the Pacific and helped defeat
the Japanese by creating a code, using the Navajo language, and secret
words that was never broken.
Sent to a boarding school as a child, Nez and other Navajo children were
discouraged from speaking their native language and instructed to only use
English, but that didn’t stop them from whispering Navajo to each other in
secret. In 1942, Navajo were recruited from boarding schools to join the
Marines and use their unique skills to develop an unbreakable code to pass
messages.
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