Dale Hanson

which renders well if you're Chinese, it's Han Sun.

And they said, we have to go to the witch doctor, see how best, the most auspicious way to write your name.

And so the first half was easy.

The Han dynasty was the warrior dynasty of China.

And I forget now after these years about what the Sun was, but then they would write , which means never die.

So I'd go out in the field, and my Chinese would run around, oh, Hanson, we forgot.

And on my back, and usually above my collar, where God could see it, or their God could see it, they would put the Chinese characters, Dil, Hanson, Kabaya Chin, never die.

And in their mind, God is going to be looking for me on this mission.

Wow.

yeah i didn't didn't discouraged so you got pretty close with those guys oh yeah no kidding yeah go and go to go to lunch in town with them or something like that you know yeah yeah good good people yeah and and and they never they never took it i took advantage of it never you know just just good people let's take a quick break okay

Of course, South Vietnam was divided up into sectors.

The Koreans had some, Australians had some, and Americans, of course.

And there might have been someone else in there, too.

uh in that mix um the australians somehow had been very much infiltrated uh in in their headquarters or whatever it was so anyway uh we were tasked with a mission for the australians and uh it was an all greenberg green beret team all five of us and um when it came time to get the mission um uh

I don't remember how we got there, if we went by chopper or by a truck or something, but it's definitely far away from anything.

It was in the Thule somewhere.

And we went across fields and stuff from when the French were there.

And when we went across several of these fields and so forth, there was a huge tent like they had in World War II and so forth, a squad tent or bigger than that even.

And that was a makeshift headquarters for the head of the operations for the Australians.

So, the five of us went in there, and the Australian commander came out.