Re: Morse code

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Posted by:  Dick AF8X

Posted On:  03/06/02

Subject:  Re: Morse code

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    In Reply to: Morse code posted by Dick AF8X on 03/05/02

I just found this. It explains a lot.
Nothing destroys like isolation. The men communicated--and sustained one another--by tapping through walls. The Hanoi Hilton, says ex-Air Force pilot Ron Bliss, "sounded like a den of runaway woodpeckers." The North Vietnamese never mastered the code, which laid out the alphabet on a simple 5-by-5 grid (omitting K, for which C was used). They tapped first the line, then the letter in that line. Thus the letter B would be tap ... tap tap. The code flowed so fluently that the men told one another jokes; kicks on the wall meant a laugh. Every Sunday, at a coded signal, the men stood and recited the Lord's Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Link:  AF8X web page

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