Interesting. The short answer is no. One thing I discovered is exploring and realizing with a mix of surprise and pleasure I was in an area that would fit with this or that LL story. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what an area might have looked or been like before civilization destroyed it. And that includes foreign lands too.

One of the things in Viet Nam that surprised me was exploring areas that seemed untouched by humans, and finding an empty Coke can or some innocuous item left along the way...literally laying on what appeared to be an unexplored, untouched mountainside. We were making our own path.

There was the time one of our guys, who was bringing up the rear of our small platoon, had silently worked his way around in front of us, emerged quite suddenly from the thick jungle in front of us...and I was restrained from attacking him with the machete in my hand. It was not good to be surprised in the middle of a war in the middle of nowhere. Innocence lost.