Dale Hanson

And so then the chopper comes, another chopper comes, and I hear yelling for me.

And I run over there.

It wasn't that far away, maybe 50 feet, 75 feet.

And Bob Garcia and the other Vietnamese are already hooked up.

And they say, Hanson, come on, come on, hook up.

And I thought, in that interval of time, I was the only one left on the ground.

I thought they were dead because I was hearing nothing at all.

And this is before the second chapter come.

And so I got on the RT-10 radio, the survival radio, which you probably have yourself, or whatever the radio is now, but it used to be a two-piece, and then it was a one-piece.

And I got on the radio, and I think I'm the only one left alive.

And so I don't know who to call.

I don't know any call signs and all that stuff.

And all I know is that when I push that button, every aircraft in the Southeast Asia is going to hear it.

And so I push that button, and I say, is anybody out there?

And it was so cool.

And the copywriter was a dear friend of mine, one I prayed for, and he lived.

And he says, I got you, Dale.

I got you, Dale, the calmest voice in the world.

That's what I wanted to hear more than anything else.

They've got me.