Dale Hanson

What a shame it would be at the end of this war, being healthy and intelligent, that I didn't do my part.

So I quit and enlisted with the pre-viso that I'd be able to try for Special Forces.

wow so you you you wanted special forces right yeah it's the only thing if i'm going to do this i'm going to be the best there is that that's all there is to it i'm not going to be anything else you know how old were you when you made that decision um probably 21 21 i think so third year of college what were you in what were you in school for

Major?

Yeah.

Theology.

Theology?

Yeah.

That's a good question because it makes me think.

It was probably atrocities I saw from the other side, how horrific communism is.

I knew philosophically how bad communism is and how they enslave and murder people.

to see it firsthand.

And of course, you had the one American who did this atrocity for the whole war, Cali, Lieutenant Cali.

But it was routine fare for the enemy.

They would wipe out entire villages and so forth, or leave one alive so that he could tell people who did it, you know.

And that might have been a good part of it.

So when you went to the recruiter... No, there wasn't a recruiter at all.

Were you drafted?

No.

No, I enlisted.