Rice Paddy

 
Yesterday I was mainly here - helping on the farm. It looks a little like a scene from Platoon -  Is that Charlie moving in the treeline ... ?














Platoon was filmed in the Philippines. (Hey, Tears of the Sun, the SEAL movie set in Nigeria was filmed in Hawaii.)

This is interesting. Below, the iconic picture of Sgt Elias Grodin (Platoon) dying as the US helicopters depart the LZ.

And this is the photo it was based on.

As fellow troopers aid wounded buddies, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne, guides a medical evacuation helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties during a five-day patrol of Hue, South Vietnam, in April, 1968. (AP Photo/Art Greenspoon)