{"id":49853,"date":"2014-06-05T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49853"},"modified":"2014-06-05T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:25:24","slug":"rip-chester-nez-the-last-navajo-code-talkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49853","title":{"rendered":"RIP; Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been sending us a link to the sad news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/arizona\/2014\/06\/04\/arizona-navajo-code-talker-dies-nez\/9965201\/\">Chester Nez has left us<\/a> and, with him, took a huge piece of purely American heritage with him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he passing of Nez \u2014 the last of the first 29 Navajo men who created a code from their language that stumped the Japanese in World War II \u2014 marked the closure of a chapter in the story of a special group of veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Nez died Wednesday morning in Albuquerque, where he lived with his son Michael. He was 93. His family said he died of kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the all-Navajo 382nd Marine Platoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the chapter about the first Navajo Code Talkers coming to a close,&#8221; said Smith, 52, whose late father was also a Code Talker, but not one of the original group. &#8220;People talk about it, and you never think it&#8217;s going to happen in your lifetime. They are carrying the past with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isSlim=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=3606153780001&#038;playerID=2868544859001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvZFMzE~,IXjx0MpOF0rs6Zj6tTY84DVV4TqsG9K-&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isSlim=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=3606153780001&#038;playerID=2868544859001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvZFMzE~,IXjx0MpOF0rs6Zj6tTY84DVV4TqsG9K-&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been sending us a link to the sad news that Chester Nez has left &hellip; <a title=\"RIP; Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49853\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP; Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}