I Didn't Know Morse Code But I Passed The Test

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  • @americanveteranscenter
    @americanveteranscenter  4 місяці тому +43

    HISTORY LOVERS - before you comment, be sure to subscribe to this UA-cam channel and ring the notification bell so you never miss a future upload!

    • @georgeshelton6281
      @georgeshelton6281 3 місяці тому

      Our 2nd Persian Gulf War veterans wished that Iraq and Afghanistan would change. 🇮🇶 🇦🇫 😢 🤣 👏 😏 😒 🇦🇫

  • @Hagood2011
    @Hagood2011 4 місяці тому +616

    My Great-Grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge. God rest him, I don’t know that he ever got any peace.

    • @jonschlottig9584
      @jonschlottig9584 4 місяці тому +6

      God bless

    • @benjaminroberson1967
      @benjaminroberson1967 4 місяці тому +13

      God bless. My great grandpa directed artillery during the Battle of the Bulge.

    • @mtmox
      @mtmox 4 місяці тому +10

      My grandpa was actually in the battle of the bulge also. He got hit by a grenade and survived.

    • @erdtreeheresey4120
      @erdtreeheresey4120 4 місяці тому +6

      My great great uncle was there and at the battle of the Rhine. Stories I've heard from my grandpa that he heard from him were wild.

    • @KoolKatz666
      @KoolKatz666 4 місяці тому +6

      Never got to talk to him but my great grandpa fought there

  • @ron4245
    @ron4245 4 місяці тому +446

    M pappy was 101 in normandy. Did not talk to anyone including my gma. I used to clean his ankle wound evey sunday and he told me stories he never told anyone else. Mom gma and the rest would quiz me never told under my pappys secrecy rule. Guess thats why i m 70 years young 24 years retired combat vet. God bless pappy and the greatest generation

    • @johnshields9110
      @johnshields9110 4 місяці тому +31

      I had an Uncle who was an ambulance driver and medical aide, who got captured by the Germans during the Bulge fighting. He only ever spoke of 'the cold' and the one time he saw Hogans Heroes, where he commented that the German Sgt in charge of him was a lot roughter than Shultz! They made him care for their wounded, but let him go when their offensive failed, allowing him to walk back to the US lines.

    • @michaeljordan1902
      @michaeljordan1902 4 місяці тому +15

      My Pa went to Korea twice. After I got in and when it was my deployment time we had a beer (I was 20) and he told me a few things he's never shared with anyone. My dad and his siblings do not believe a single word but I told them one small thing so they could try and understand. I knew why he never shared what he did or what happened. He said "You've never been to hell, I have, Twice." He was talking the 38th parallel. Unfortunately Most of the records from that era burned up in the late 70s iirc. Lots of records just gone.

    • @brettspearman3706
      @brettspearman3706 4 місяці тому +11

      @@johnshields9110I also have an uncle who was a combat medic. He fell at Vire during operation Luttich while saving lives on the frontlines. He’s buried at the Brittany American Cemetary in Montjoie-St- Martin, France.

    • @johnshields9110
      @johnshields9110 4 місяці тому +7

      @@brettspearman3706 So sorry to hear he fell! Uncle Ed made it home, and worked 30 years more in the Ohio factory he left for the war.

    • @williamfletcherpa7961
      @williamfletcherpa7961 4 місяці тому +7

      I give anything to be able to hear World War II veterans tell their stories. The greatest generation. They would turn over in their graves if they saw the state of our country now

  • @GlennMaske
    @GlennMaske 4 місяці тому +24

    Thanks for your service During WW2 God bless you 🙏🇺🇸🪖

  • @happynana9354
    @happynana9354 4 місяці тому +239

    I like this man and his stories.😊

  • @ryancontaldi8610
    @ryancontaldi8610 3 місяці тому +11

    God bless u for fighting in that terrible battle

  • @johnnydied9563
    @johnnydied9563 3 місяці тому +7

    Thank you for your service God Bless, you sir.

  • @chriscaptain3141
    @chriscaptain3141 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks ❤❤❤

  • @cheezkid2689
    @cheezkid2689 4 місяці тому +174

    They were looking for guys who were capable of listening properly and paying attention. Morse code is fascinating to me since it's so simple and easy, yet a vast majority of people don't know it and seem to think it's some super hard encryption.

    • @moniquemannaert3468
      @moniquemannaert3468 4 місяці тому +20

      Some people are stronger
      auditorily, others visualy. We aren't equally strong in our qualities. We are lucky you are talented in that field.

    • @cheezkid2689
      @cheezkid2689 4 місяці тому +18

      @moniquemannaert3468 Oh, I'm no military man. I'm just a girl who likes history who knows the basics of Morse. I couldn't decode it under pressure like the way he likely had to while in the military. You arw right, though. I find it fascinating how pretty much everyone has something they are naturally good at, and that thing often has nothing to do with how they were raised. We've all got our callings.

    • @JohnGunn-
      @JohnGunn- 4 місяці тому +12

      It seems super hard for me because real Morse messages go super fast and it's like beepboopbeepboopflcbzpwhfms@)#+$-&£^€¥π¢§¥π•]¢\ 🤯

    • @notmyname3883
      @notmyname3883 3 місяці тому +3

      It's not super hard encryption but you do have to memorize 26 different sets of multiple dots and dashes in order to identify letters that are coming at you as fast as sound

    • @brandonreed9508
      @brandonreed9508 3 місяці тому +4

      @@JohnGunn- On a side note I just found out how to do this
      -hi how are ya-
      (-)hi how are ya(-)

  • @johnfleury5430
    @johnfleury5430 4 місяці тому +90

    Thank you for your service sir Thank you for our freedom

  • @norasanchez2348
    @norasanchez2348 4 місяці тому

    Thankful to God for you Mr White, I pray God watches over you & keeps you healthy❤Thank you for yoir service ❤❤🎉🎉

  • @susiedoran2339
    @susiedoran2339 4 місяці тому +5

    Thank you for your service, Sir!

  • @jo5100
    @jo5100 4 місяці тому +3

    💘🌟🇺🇲 Thank you for your service!! 🇺🇲🌟💘

  • @bencooley9655
    @bencooley9655 4 місяці тому

    Thank You Sir For Your Service And God Bless You ❤️🇺🇸🙏

  • @miked6606
    @miked6606 4 місяці тому +15

    I could listen to these stories hours

  • @sharonspencer2312
    @sharonspencer2312 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for your service to our country!

  • @garrypaulsessoms7195
    @garrypaulsessoms7195 4 місяці тому

    Thank you hero

  • @kevinjang2075
    @kevinjang2075 4 місяці тому

    God bless you sir.

  • @tayojackson5536
    @tayojackson5536 4 місяці тому +1

    I love these first jamd accounts from our beloved veterans❤

  • @MegaFonebone
    @MegaFonebone 4 місяці тому

    Love to hear these personal stories

  • @shelbywoo3229
    @shelbywoo3229 4 місяці тому +86

    It is to societies detriment we’re losing these brave men and the history they carry with them. I’m thankful for these videos.

    • @donlarocque5157
      @donlarocque5157 4 місяці тому +8

      I used to take a WWII veteran shooting in the woods. He passed away in 2012.

    • @ChesterManfred
      @ChesterManfred 4 місяці тому +3

      We might not get people as brave as these men ever again, that's kinda worrying

  • @Rick-np9vz
    @Rick-np9vz 4 місяці тому

    Thank you brother!

  • @melissalough2596
    @melissalough2596 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for your service.

  • @RicardoGil-b7f
    @RicardoGil-b7f 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you GOD for All The BRAVE SOULS Thank you for your service GOD BLESS YOU All AMEN 💯♥️✌️🙏🙏🙏

  • @Mike-ke4yp
    @Mike-ke4yp 4 місяці тому

    Salute to you Sir! 🫡

  • @UDX4570PalmSprings-yh1mv
    @UDX4570PalmSprings-yh1mv 9 днів тому

    My Father was a radio radar operator on the USS Wasp CV-18,and the USS Redfin (gato class sub) Dad was deployed to the South Pacific in 43' Dad was a ham radio operator prior to enlistment in 1933 He was very skilled with communications and was a CPO First class radio Operator with eight battle engagements with the Japanese.
    We are watching a member of the greatest generation known to Man kind! Thank you for your service 🇺🇲🙏✌️

  • @janetdoten4489
    @janetdoten4489 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service! It probably would be a smart thing to learn more code never know what future brings

  • @alonzowinston5470
    @alonzowinston5470 4 місяці тому

    God bless.him!

  • @williammesar7898
    @williammesar7898 3 місяці тому

    Thank you sir for your service.

  • @icrrmr
    @icrrmr 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service!!

  • @MT-tn4ei
    @MT-tn4ei 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service, sir, God bless

  • @beatorres8395
    @beatorres8395 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service ❤️

  • @joylynne1343
    @joylynne1343 4 місяці тому

    ❤ Thank you for your Service. ❤

  • @wire54321
    @wire54321 4 місяці тому +22

    Thank You for your Service Sir

  • @markshimaji2923
    @markshimaji2923 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service to our country 🇺🇸.

  • @jimwhitaker4254
    @jimwhitaker4254 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for sharing. It's a simple hero!

  • @felicianlevai6093
    @felicianlevai6093 4 місяці тому

    It is so amazing to get to see so many paths of life from all these people.

  • @bdcinac
    @bdcinac 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service Sir

  • @patrickmcgeachie1834
    @patrickmcgeachie1834 4 місяці тому +1

    Yeah communication,
    Is absolutely vital, men's lives depend on it.

  • @TheRogueJester-u9p
    @TheRogueJester-u9p 4 місяці тому

    God bless you sir. I wish I could just sit down and talk over a coffee with a true hero, someone I can only look up to

  • @welshwytch
    @welshwytch 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service sir ❤

  • @thomascorrea3937
    @thomascorrea3937 4 місяці тому +25

    Thank you Sir for your service and your story

  • @bramsltd
    @bramsltd 4 місяці тому +1

    Greatest generation

  • @lawrenceneuenii3564
    @lawrenceneuenii3564 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service and God bless

  • @vickilrogers5232
    @vickilrogers5232 4 місяці тому +7

    Respect ❤

  • @SScott-uv9is
    @SScott-uv9is 4 місяці тому +10

    Good for you! And thank you!

  • @0ipatchz
    @0ipatchz 4 місяці тому

    Thank you sir for your service we salute you

  • @kurtolson627
    @kurtolson627 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service and our freedoms, be blessed

  • @wqktwkvx
    @wqktwkvx 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service, God bless you, sir.

  • @onahamilt2907
    @onahamilt2907 3 місяці тому

    Good men back then. Real men.

  • @chriscaptain3141
    @chriscaptain3141 2 місяці тому

    Understand ❤❤❤

  • @shawnndixon5254
    @shawnndixon5254 4 місяці тому +1

    I wish my great grandad lived to tell me stories. He was a royal engineer and mechanic for england in wwII who passed in 03

  • @HesterKyle-i5h
    @HesterKyle-i5h 4 місяці тому

    Thank you Thank you for your service to our country

  • @GodblessAmerica-qy6gi
    @GodblessAmerica-qy6gi 4 місяці тому

    Thank you 🇺🇸

  • @williamneil7557
    @williamneil7557 4 місяці тому

    God bless each and every veteran every where thank you all for everything

  • @Mary-zt8yr
    @Mary-zt8yr 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for your service to keep America safe ❤

  • @Sirruinous
    @Sirruinous 4 місяці тому +1

    It all started with a guess
    -veterans everywhere

  • @CharleneJackson-om8hp
    @CharleneJackson-om8hp 4 місяці тому +17

    Thank you, you are an American hero.

  • @georgeshelton6281
    @georgeshelton6281 3 місяці тому

    I'm impressed that we still have these WW2 veterans who are still alive today. Compared to the 3rd Persian Gulf War veterans who lost their lives too easily in combat. Even our NASCAR drivers have honored the veterans who lost their lives in this war. 🎖 🥇 🙏 🙂 🙌 😌 🎖

  • @indigenousserpant7779
    @indigenousserpant7779 4 місяці тому +1

    Thats How you do it! Thank you Sir for coming on and Thank you for your Service!

  • @rossjohnson1872
    @rossjohnson1872 4 місяці тому +2

    My Dud was in signal Corp 1954. We would go to a restaurant and he would start tapping his spoon on his cup talking back and forth with another old guy across the room.
    I knew semaphore (flags Morse code) in Boy Scouts but forgot it.

  • @1952truck
    @1952truck 4 місяці тому +15

    I learned Morris Code in 1978
    to pass my amateur radio license it was the greatest accomplish in my lifetime. Sadly, it’s not taught anymore unless the Boy Scouts still do it

    • @katmandoo7279
      @katmandoo7279 4 місяці тому

      Unfortunately, Boy scouts don’t do it anymore.

    • @sbagwell98
      @sbagwell98 4 місяці тому +1

      We Ham Operators still do.
      USMC Radio Operator.
      You can talk about us, But ya can't talk without Us.
      Semper Fi

    • @draincatYT
      @draincatYT 3 місяці тому

      Good ol Morris!

    • @youtubemademecreateanewcha6965
      @youtubemademecreateanewcha6965 3 місяці тому +1

      I learned in the early 70’s in jr high school. My dad was extra class and said if I got my license I could get a bike. Got my bike and kept going. I ended up with advanced class. I could not break into the 18 wpm rate. That was 40 years ago.
      My father said to listen for the pattern not the individual dots and dashes. I was too dumb to figure that out.

  • @kimkretzsinger5670
    @kimkretzsinger5670 3 місяці тому +1

    🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @leert2698
    @leert2698 4 місяці тому

    Many of the lessons these people learned were like a speed course. I know they were given excellent training but it has to be a bit tough learning dots and dashes. Thank you sir for your service to our great nation !🇺🇸

  • @joeflippo520
    @joeflippo520 4 місяці тому

    He still feels the pride of being one of the three after all these years

  • @CHDRCJ
    @CHDRCJ 3 місяці тому +1

    Jesus loves you, Thank-you ❤❤❤

  • @garyprice3115
    @garyprice3115 4 місяці тому +9

    This is so typical of the military. I am a retired Marine. Glad things haven't changed.

  • @Rood67
    @Rood67 4 місяці тому

    Coast Guard Radioman “A” School Petaluma CA 1990 because men like this inspired me.
    Thank you sir!

  • @duron700r
    @duron700r 4 місяці тому +2

    Smart fellow! Picked up Morse right off.

  • @epicace699
    @epicace699 4 місяці тому

    Love listening to these! I’m glad I got to interview a local WW2 vet a couple years back. Their stories are so important and must be archived. Such brave men.

  • @disgruntledconservativevet1798
    @disgruntledconservativevet1798 4 місяці тому

    Hero 🇺🇸🫡

  • @richtomlinson7090
    @richtomlinson7090 4 місяці тому

    I knew a few men that were in communications, and a good friends father, had the privilege of participating in the sending of the message of the Japanese surrendering.
    He didn't see as much action as this gentleman, but they all had a job to do.
    My own father served on the USS Lloyd apd 63.
    It was an interesting ship, that delivered men to the beaches in the Philippines and Borneo.

  • @Dillon41689
    @Dillon41689 4 місяці тому

    Hell yeah sir! Small understanding and complete guessing is the absolute military thing to do. The legitimate times fellow soldiers, or me, have just taken the small amount of info and just guessed is wild. If you end up getting selected, you just carry on and try your best. Hell yeah

  • @chesneymigl4538
    @chesneymigl4538 3 місяці тому

    My grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge!

  • @natestakely1478
    @natestakely1478 4 місяці тому

    saved his darn life

  • @thenewyorkredneck4735
    @thenewyorkredneck4735 4 місяці тому +5

    Glad to know the incompetence of the military precedes me.

    • @davepotanko5514
      @davepotanko5514 4 місяці тому +4

      "I never heard Morse code, so I kinda guessed"...
      You, are selected for communications school.
      This is why the U.S. military is so great. Completely illogical path and they get the right person in place.
      Thank you for your service!

    • @chamllis
      @chamllis 3 місяці тому +2

      It was probably a test to see which soldiers could hear the difference in sounds.

  • @jamesknowles658
    @jamesknowles658 3 місяці тому

    🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @bryanzam1412
    @bryanzam1412 4 місяці тому

    Great sacrifice, means great sorrow.
    WAR IS HELL !

  • @dennisshaw7153
    @dennisshaw7153 4 місяці тому

    This guy is so freaking adorable.

  • @FrankeeLee223
    @FrankeeLee223 4 місяці тому +2

    Same with me . Radio communications.

  • @rossbryan6102
    @rossbryan6102 4 місяці тому

    I WAS LUCKY AT THE START OF MY RAILROAD CARREER AS THEY STARTED PHASING
    TELEGRAPHY OUT AT THAT TIME !
    THERE WERE SOME OF THE OLD HEADS THAT CONTINUED TO USE IT FOR ABOUT 5 MORE YEARS, THEN IT WAS REMOVED ENTIRELY!!
    KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!
    👍👍

  • @clydepurse3680
    @clydepurse3680 3 місяці тому +16

    I don’t give a flying fu@k what Private Bone Spurs says about veterans, they’re HEROS in my book. Thank you for your survive young man!

    • @yerbudspud
      @yerbudspud 2 місяці тому

      Good lord can you weirdos keep current day politics out of anything? Keep it on political vids and Twitter where that cancer belongs. The rest of us on every side are tired of hearing you schizos.

  • @EmMiller-wu3dy
    @EmMiller-wu3dy 4 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @Jollyprez
    @Jollyprez 3 місяці тому

    That's an interesting and clever test. Morse code requires a certain amount of "musical" ability to differentiate what is going on. I learned morse when I was 13 to become a ham operator. I'm 63 now, and can still "copy" at about 13 words-per-minute, though my license expired when I was in the Navy overseas ( age 23 ).

  • @silverbird425
    @silverbird425 2 місяці тому

    From someone with hearing issues at certain frequencies: You can always learn what the differences mean, but if you can't hear the difference, it's a problem.

  • @Bubba4168
    @Bubba4168 4 місяці тому

    My father Claude E. Nall Jr. was a radioman, second-class aboard, the USS, COPAHEE aircraft carrier during World War II. I can assume he started out the same way this man did.

  • @isaacschmitt4803
    @isaacschmitt4803 4 місяці тому

    I remember doing a similar test when I enlisted. It's less about whether or not you know it, it's about whether or not you can discern patterns. They'll teach you what you need to know, but pattern recognition really can't be taught.

  • @cajonesalt0191
    @cajonesalt0191 3 місяці тому

    "... I was kinda guessin'..." Everyone who got over a 90 on the ASVAB. This is exactly how I got put in language school.

  • @geezerguy6410
    @geezerguy6410 4 місяці тому

    Now they would say it doesn't matter if you passed the test what matters more then passing crucial life saving information is diversity and inclusivness.
    You, the deaf guy in the dress you passed your our new morse code specialist

  • @McCamerCoach
    @McCamerCoach 4 місяці тому

    My father took code as a Boy Scout. He was put into code school and police when he volunteered for the RCMP in 45 before his draft notice came
    Canada The mounties are considered a military force that do civilian policing

  • @mylpsbuds808
    @mylpsbuds808 4 місяці тому

    Pro patria vigilans. Thank you fellow Signal soldier for your sacrifice. You can talk about us but you can't talk without us!! 1988-÷2011 4 deployments.

  • @onie4024
    @onie4024 4 місяці тому

    God love this man....

  • @mynameispig
    @mynameispig 4 місяці тому

    My grandfather was a radio operator in Hawaii later in ww2. He told me when he went to sleep at night instead of people talking in his dreams, they spoke Morse code.

  • @patriciasmith7074
    @patriciasmith7074 2 місяці тому

    My father joined the Navy at the age of 17 and they sent him to learn the Morse code too, his first ship he was assigned to was very old it was the USS Idaho a battleship that was stationed at Iceland so it didn’t get destroyed at Pearl Harbor. He told me the flour that they used to bake the bread had bugs in it and they used it anyway and they either picked the bugs out or ate it anyway. Then he got transferred to the USS Commencement Bay Air Craft carrier. He was very good at sending and receiving code and after the war was over they offered him a position to teach it but he wanted to marry his girlfriend who didn’t want to move to San Diego so he stayed in his hometown and got married and got a job working in the Defense Development Industry. He kept up his coding as an Amateur Radio Operator and my son also followed after his grandfather and also became a Ham operator. My son was the President of his Amateur Radio Club at college and enjoyed continuing the hobby.

  • @christianeaster2776
    @christianeaster2776 4 місяці тому

    They weren't testing whether he knew Morse code. They were checking to see if they could hear the difference. 😊

  • @ElizabethBunnell-k8f
    @ElizabethBunnell-k8f 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for your Service!!! 🫡🌹

  • @12thsonofisrael
    @12thsonofisrael 4 місяці тому

    Welcome Home 🏡 💓 🕊 🇺🇲 🦅 🌐 ⚓🔱🇺🇲🗽🕊❣

  • @Gr3nadgr3gory
    @Gr3nadgr3gory 4 місяці тому

    This seemed like a preliminary hearing test. Gotta make sure you can tell the difference.

  • @vickismith3052
    @vickismith3052 3 місяці тому

    My father did Morris code in ww2 and on the railroad his family was on the railroad l all their life form Sweden to America

  • @katiesioux7757
    @katiesioux7757 3 місяці тому

    💜🇺🇸