Chester Nez Reflection Paragraph

      The Navajo Code-Talker project helped the U.S. communicate fast and without worry of the enemy deciphering their plans. They took thirty Navajo Native American men and, after basic marine core training, told them to put together an unbreakable code to be used to communicate in the Pacific theater of the war. The last living Code-Talker, Chester Nez, shared his information about the experience.
      Because the Navajo Code-Talkers had such tough, young lives, they were prepared for the tough marine work. Even though the training was harsh, the hard work that they have been doing since age five, like walking around fifteen miles, or more, a day to reach green grass to feed their sheep, helped them out in the situation.
      Their work was also a major improvement to the previous Code-Talk system. What message were normally sent and replied to in four hours, took them around two and a half minutes. The code was so simple if you knew what to look for, yet so complex in its idea that it was near impossible to decode for those who did not know it.
      The code that they used took a Navajo word, translated it into English, found the first letter of the English word, and that was the letter that was sent. Certain words that would be used more often, like fighter plane, would have an indirect translation to a word, rather than have been spelled out. This type of code was used to save time.
      Chester Nez stated "I served four years in the Pacific," just as Louie Zamperini, a WWII air force fighter and Olympic competitor,  also fought in the Pacific theater.