60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: Wartime Morse Code Motivated a Daughter’s Military Choice

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/london-borough-of-barking-and-dagenham.asp" target="_blank">Barking, East London, England</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>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 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 Morse code to speak to each other while they were out at sea. Dad was a radioman. [Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqTn-165orw" target="_blank">here</a> for a 1943 US Navy training film demonstrating sending Morse Code. ] </p><p>I don’t know very much about dad serving as a US Navy radioman on a warship in the Pacific. Like so many stories our loved ones thought were inconsequential we end up cobbling them together from memory and archives.</p><p>But I do know this: I chose to become a US Navy Nurse motivated by my dad who went to war with his brothers and friends because that’s what you did then. How you served your country.    </p><p><strong>Question</strong>: Who or what motivated your career path? </p><p><strong>You’re invited:</strong> “<i>Come for the stories - stay for the magic</i>!” Speaking of magic, I hope you’ll subscribe, share a nice shout out on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time! <strong>Remember to stop by the website, check out the Services, arrange a Discovery Call, and Opt In to stay current with Diane and </strong><a href="https://www.quartermoonstoryarts.net" target="_blank"><strong>Quarter Moon Story Arts</strong></a> and on <strong>Linked In</strong>: linkedin.com/in/diane-f-wyzga-78403919a  </p><p><strong>Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team</strong></p><p>Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & <a href="https://www.q