Thanks traveler 1st
I will post it ,but from top to bottom , for the 5,7 &9th symbol that looks like a 8 in a O I will use just a 8 ……and a + for the zodiac sign , a W for the 10th symbol , I might do it better in the days ahead .

A= airborne or airman
E= marines USMC back then a branch of the navy (E cause it is the sharpest pronounced letter)
N = Navy
+ = gunner operated a special / heavy gun
8 = many ,that symbol used to report the kills when it was unclear of the # because so many
K= kills
8= many
M= maimed
8= many
W= missions …. the symbol could be a bomb dropped exploding so bombings also possible

Nam … of course = Vietnam war

he was a marines chopper rear door gunner , he fired the gattling gun ,likely on a Kiowa scout chopper (argueably the most dangerous position to fill in the war) .
in the Mekong river Delta if in the Marines
The zodiac hood – not created for the Zodiac killings it was worn by the gunners for a # of reasons
so as not to be IDed by the enemy later ( yes they flew that close) and the brass cases came of the gun at 1200 degrees flying all over it was to keep them from going down the back of a shirt or hitting your face that in a heavy fire fight could mean the difference in life and death .
also to hide the operator ,seem like it was unmanned until it was to late .

Quite the long name.

I knew it was gonna be bad…I had no idea though.

Now. Before you start getting all uppity and upset I don’t mean any offense by my words. Firstly it’s not a decoding it’s an interpretation at best. No harm in that. The problem is that it can’t be tested and even as an interpretation it’s heavily skewed to make it be what you want it to be. As a cipher it’s too short to be decoded so all we can do is guess, for now, at its actual meaning but I believe that even that approach has to remain somewhere within the bounds of what Zodiac has already supplied us with. It may well be that we won’t know the meaning of the Z13 until the Z340 is decoded.

Your ‘suggestion’ is exactly that … a suggestion and It’s all yours. All your thoughts. All Zodiac provided was a single line of 13 cipher symbols and the preceding statement of "My name is -". From that you have interpreted a mini biog from initials that may not be (quite likely aren’t) initials and even at that you had to further interpret the symbols that aren’t letters into letters that you want to fit the story you created to suit your POI.

Please tell me that makes sense. Give me some hope.

I have other info that points to what I am saying about it . NO you can’t have it Trav ..troll … no offense
what other decodings that even seem viable have surfaced in 45 yrs. That was not a ?
you think he is going to give a real first and last name …geez . I do believe he left the clue as I have it , that narrows it down to a managable number . I say it shows a very real decoding to the 340 too, the letters being the dominate letter sound of the word , if each line was a anagram . each line could be a different rant . that makes it very hard to solve ,but easy for him to write down and check.

what other decodings that even seem viable have surfaced in 45 yrs. That was not a ?

That was quite funny. I think we all know the answer if it had been a question.

Ace. Just to be clear. I’m saying the approach you have taken here with the Z13 is rubbish. Not your ideas, guesses, interpretation but the approach itself and you don’t have to take that personally because you didn’t invent the approach. Your POI could be Zodiac and I would still say that this approach is rubbish and not helpful to proving that. It’s akin to inventing evidence.

I know it’s exciting when you think you can see something that makes sense in relation to your own POI whether that’s in the writing, the ciphers, Zodiac’s ‘disguises’ etc. That’s fine. We all do that. Those are just thoughts though and not clues or solutions or answers. Just thoughts and if we present them we have to present them as such. That had to be drilled into my skull and I’m still learning to listen to that advice.

Sometimes in this case – especially with the cipher stuff – it is best to just call a spade a spade. And call rubbish rubbish. Which I agree that this is. It’s useless.

-glurk

what other decodings that even seem viable have surfaced in 45 yrs. That was not a ?

Apparently you have ignored the millions of decodings that fit Z13 even without doing any strange tricks with it: http://zodiackillerciphers.com/wiki/ind … _Solutions

You are going to have a hard time proving any decoding of Z13 because so many solutions exist. The burden of proof is on you.

I’m still going with Sarah the Horse.

I agree doranchek about the statement you can’t prove any solution is right ….unless you know the subject of it to give a clue
that is why he put the -nam -on the end. my solution tells who he is to some degree
there is a reason why I connect him to this , but you all are just spectators on the wrong side of the police tape
if you lack knowledge about that how can you judge ?

…my solution tells who he is to some degree
there is a reason why I connect him to this , but you all are just spectators on the wrong side of the police tape
if you lack knowledge about that how can you judge ?

Exactly.

So you either need to fill in the members of this board or this "solution" is entirely for you and means nothing to the rest of us. So I then ask, what is the point? You post it, we know nothing of "why" this has any value, then don’t think people should judge.

…my solution tells who he is to some degree
there is a reason why I connect him to this , but you all are just spectators on the wrong side of the police tape
if you lack knowledge about that how can you judge ?

So now you are claiming to have information no one else has? That’s convenient. And tedious. So many others have used the same tactic. It’d be nice if the claim was true for a change.

You’re skating on thin ice here.

im confused, but mildly entertained. so what was the code’s solution again?

im confused, but mildly entertained. so what was the code’s solution again?

My name is "airborne marines navy gunner operated a special / heavy gun many kills many maimed many missions Vietnam war".