Dale Hanson

intellectually socially spiritually and so i tried my best and to to be as close to perfect as i can in all those areas so so physically i worked out hard and i i don't know if anyone in the high school ever did but i worked out hard my pull-ups three sets of 35 and the dips was three sets of uh

And so when I worked on it really hard, I jogged and all that kind of a thing.

And then intellectually, I tried to read good literature.

I read the classics and all that, and books on logic and thinking and so forth, so you could actually reason clearly.

And of course, socially and spiritually, I'm a little bit clumsy socially.

I'm a little bit shy, but nonetheless, I try.

And so that is one of the things that made me as well-rounded as I am today, if I am at all well-rounded, because I tried to encapsulate all four of those areas in my heart.

And of course, the third thing is getting shot.

I was 13 years old, and the first one kind of gave me a certain amount of courage.

A lot of people ask me, what is the number one ingredient to be a Green Beret?

And I always think, well, people expect me to say, and they're true, like physical strength, intelligence is in there, and there are several, a bunch of them.

But after three years of combat, I think the number one thing of a leader, especially in that kind of a war, is being able to make a decision under pressure.

Probably more than anything.

When it is so violent and wild and turmoil that you can't even think, you've got to come up with the right thing to do.

And I was hunting with my uncles.

I was there.

My brother was a year and a half younger, and then my cousin was two years younger, and two of my uncles.

And my uncles...

Young guys were going to do a drive and they were going to go on the other side of a pretty large forest area.

And so they went around and they left the cars there in the field.