His dad was a POW in WW2 for 44 months, because he was a Seabee on Wake Island installing an airstrip when the Japanese captured him, and his mom was a code breaker "code girls"
You can hear Bill Nye tell his parent's history in
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1079-armchair-expert-with-dax-28955120/ from the 5 minute mark to the 14 minute mark
https://math.asu.edu/events/code-girls a little about the Code Girls
https://www.lizamundy.com/code-girls/gallery-2/ for images
you can read an abbreviated version of the capture of Wake Island in late Dec 1941, https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1941/philippines/defenders-of-wake.html and it wasn't back in American control until the Japanese surrendered in September 1945
FYI, in 1972, Bill's mom was denied a credit card, because she was a "Mrs" and that automatically categorized her as a woman without income or credit that would qualify her, according to American Express
That's how recently things were seriously ridiculous
By the way, Bill Nye worked at Boeing as an engineer for 3 years, then went to work at Honeywell
You can hear Bill Nye tell his parent's history in
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1079-armchair-expert-with-dax-28955120/ from the 5 minute mark to the 14 minute mark
https://math.asu.edu/events/code-girls a little about the Code Girls
https://www.lizamundy.com/code-girls/gallery-2/ for images
you can read an abbreviated version of the capture of Wake Island in late Dec 1941, https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1941/philippines/defenders-of-wake.html and it wasn't back in American control until the Japanese surrendered in September 1945
FYI, in 1972, Bill's mom was denied a credit card, because she was a "Mrs" and that automatically categorized her as a woman without income or credit that would qualify her, according to American Express
That's how recently things were seriously ridiculous
By the way, Bill Nye worked at Boeing as an engineer for 3 years, then went to work at Honeywell
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