Dale Hanson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah, how long have you guys known each other?
We didn't know each other in Vietnam, but we knew each other after.
He was DNC North.
I was seen Central.
So we were only a couple hundred miles apart, but our missions were parallel rather than at the same time.
So I knew him at the first Army reunions, the Special Forces ones, and got to be friends right away.
Who could not be friends with Tilt?
Oh, northern Minnesota.
Northern Minnesota.
The northernmost town in continental United States, the cold spot of the United States.
And I was mentioning to one of the guys that 30% of Canada is south of northern Minnesota.
And Maine and Washington State are 300 miles south if you go to longitude and latitude.
And it seems to come down right there at my hometown.
It's pretty cold.
Wow.
Really cold.
So how did you wind up in Alaska?
Was that getting the hell away from everybody?
It was after the war, after a whole bunch of stuff.
I think my wife wanted to go more than anything else.