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4.5 stars
Chester Nez was one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers who not only served as a Code Talker, but was one of the ones that created the code used in WWII and remained unbroken until it was declassified in the late 1960s.
This is is autobiography of his life living just off the reservation, having to attend boarding school where they tried to erase the Navajo language from him, to joining the Marines and finding that his fluency in both Navajo and English was invaluable to the war effort, to returning home and not being able to talk about his experiences, to eventually being recognized for how he and his fellows were the ones that stemmed the tide to victory in the Pacific.
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It's hard to rate a person's experience and story. But I found myself gripped by the telling and moved by his experiences. I am glad he lived to see his efforts recognized and rewarded and I am sad for those that did not.
We should never forget.
Chester Nez was one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers who not only served as a Code Talker, but was one of the ones that created the code used in WWII and remained unbroken until it was declassified in the late 1960s.
This is is autobiography of his life living just off the reservation, having to attend boarding school where they tried to erase the Navajo language from him, to joining the Marines and finding that his fluency in both Navajo and English was invaluable to the war effort, to returning home and not being able to talk about his experiences, to eventually being recognized for how he and his fellows were the ones that stemmed the tide to victory in the Pacific.
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It's hard to rate a person's experience and story. But I found myself gripped by the telling and moved by his experiences. I am glad he lived to see his efforts recognized and rewarded and I am sad for those that did not.
We should never forget.