Dale Hanson

Five months leave, so I was in three hospitals, and one up in Fitzsimmons Hospital in Denver, and one in Japan, and one in...

saigon i think it was but three different hospitals and then convalescent leave at home and what i did when it was time to go back i could pick one place to go to in route and so i put my finger on international falls minnesota and i put the other finger on the other side of the globe and it said cape town south africa

And I said, I want to go there.

And then every time the plane stopped, whether it was Greece, Rome, Africa, or whatever it was, I traveled in there.

A brother to come home to.

Did you have anyone?

To come home to.

Were you married yet?

No, I wasn't married.

My family was there.

My brother was there.

He had a year and a half in the 173rd Airborne.

Yeah, it's interesting.

I called my mom from Japan.

Instead, I had been shot in Vietnam.

And my brother was in the room.

And she says, Mom, I know where.

And she said it was in the head and the hand.

And she says, how did you know that?

He said, I felt it.