Dale Remembered by Scotty Frosch

Steve,

My pleasure on sending the pictures...and please feel free to
post the original e-mail I sent to Gravel IRT hearing of Dale's
passing...

Subject: RE: Dale Jensen
Gravel,

I just received your e-mail this morning, and the phone messages from
both you and Roger Riley...as I was TAD out of the office and up to the
Pentagon for the past week...I must say that I was truly shocked to hear of
Dale's death...as I have never known someone more full of life than Dale...If
there was one person I thought would live forever, it would have been that
crazy SOB!  You know, even thinking about him now, at a sad time like this,
still brings a smile to my face...

When I get the chance, I will have to scan in some pictures I have of
Dale and us from the Old Rugby Days, including some at my folk's house in Sauk
City back in 1984/85 or so taken on our way down to play UW-Madison...

In fact, I was just back in Wisconsin this past August, and my folks
asked about Dale, as they remember us sitting around the kitchen table
drinking beer until five in the morning, eating Korean kimchi and dried fish
that Dale had stuffed into the back of that old two door blue Ford or Mercury
he had back in the day...and the whole time my Dad and Dale are ganging up on
me, and calling me a "Puss" because I had joined the Marine Corps, and not the
Army Special Forces...God I was sick that next day...but we still
played...terribly, but we played...and good enough to win if I remember
correctly...

I have never had more fun in my life than I did with Dale...of course,
there is a reason for that...because most of what we did with Dale would be
considered "Politically Incorrect" nowadays at best, and may actually be
illegal to some degree...Hahahaha!!!!!

As Jeff Asmus said in his e-mail to you all...he had never danced on a
table naked before until he met Dale....well, I had never sang "Singing in the
Rain" semi-naked before while standing in a crowded bar either, nor handed a
toll booth guy a beer instead of money to get us through the Illinois Toll
System near Chicago on our way to play Northwestern while wearing a piece of
white tape on my forehead saying "Jensen" either...but I did them both...and
too many other semi-illegal things, which just seemed natural when Dale was
around...and most of which I think I still have pictures of...

I was really looking forward to seeing him again come this Spring after
we retire, and move back to our home in Wisconsin...The last time I saw him
was when I took our son Matthew to the EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh, and we stopped
by their house to see Dale, Kathy and the boys, maybe back in 1996/1997 or
so...He hadn't changed much, that is for sure...still crazy as ever...

The world is a much less exciting place now that Dale has gone... 

I would appreciate if you could get me his address and a phone number in
so that I can call Kathy at some point down the road to offer our
condolences...

Thanks again for letting me know...

Semper Fi,

Scott

Lieutenant Colonel S.B. Frosch, USMC
United States Marine Corps Representative
505th TRS
Air Combat Command
Hurlburt Field, Florida

Filed under: La Crosse Wisconsin

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