his father, john tesh, sr.n the navy and wounded during the war. >> every day from the moment he enlisted he told, he was writing love letters to my mom, just about the day, what was going on, his fears and aspirations and many of that stuff and there were times he was on the tower and his watch as chief petty officer would be basically call it out, when the japanese zero would come in and he was writing about all of this stuff. >> kelly: john says before his father died he instilled in him the value of service to god and country, service is ingrained in john's character and he designed his radio show for the purpose of serving people with information and inspiration to help improve their lives in a tough economy and in difficult times. >> let's go deeper than your music and your radio program, because you're driven with a purpose driven life. so, what's the purpose you're trying to instill in people or introduce them to. >> well, the purpose driven life bye rick warren wrote that book and that's really the, ot