During the summer of 1986, a friend and I visited Uijeongbu, near the DMZ in northern South Korea. It was a memorable-enough visit, especially in retrospect. For one thing, I later discovered that the US military base in that area was named for a Medal of Honor Winner from Wisconsin, my homestate. For another, it provided the backdrop for my two-scene play, “Borderline,” a melodrama set in 1980s South Korea.

An interesting look back at the real “Black Hawk Down”.