Mary Anne a Man?

While reading the story of Mary Anne this week, I kept wondering what was the point of her story. Is her story fiction or fact. I have come to a decision that it is both. The is no female Mary Anne running about Vietnam with a tongue necklace, but I believe there are many soldiers who find her story similar to their own. How many soldiers wished they could become a part of the land and find solace in the beauty of a new place instead of the horror of war around them. Did soldiers found themselves reverted back to a Paleolithic sense of "kill or be killed."I find many soldiers can relate to to lost sense of "morality" in war. Mary Anne does not represent a woman lost to the jungle but the multiple men.