Dale Hanson

You don't?

I don't.

I don't.

And I think because of my ethic on taking a life, it's OK to kill for self-defense, capital punishment, and more.

And so I don't have that guilt matrix to really make me

cry, sorrow, whatever it is.

Perhaps sometimes when you take out the first one or two that you got, you figure you got them because the fighting is diminished, but they're on the other side of the branches and stuff, and you know you got them, but you didn't see the dying.

Sometimes you go back and think, you know, he came from a family too, and he probably didn't want to go to South Vietnam and fight for Ho Chi Minh.

It's really hard to give comfort in that time.

Did it ever bother you?

No, it doesn't.

Only philosophically when you realize that that person probably didn't want to be there or may not have wanted to be there.

But as far as my part in it, it didn't bother me.

It needed to be done.

It had to be done.

And so there were times, I don't know how many I took out, but there were lots.

And I just don't think about it.

We've got plenty of things to worry about on an upcoming mission.

Same thing with you.

Yeah, I came back for a couple months of it.