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Podcast: Stories From Women Who Walk
Episode: 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: My Dad’s Morse Code Work Motivated My Military Service
Description: Hello to you listening in Barking, East London, England!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.
Sometimes in passing he would whisper: dit, dit, dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit. Morse Code for SOS, Save Our Ship. I’m thinking of a skinny, 18 year old inner city kid hunched over a Morse Code machine in a radio room on a warship tapping out messages somewhere in the Pacific. During World War II US Navy warships used Mo...