Terry Leonard, the editor of the Stars and Stripes, the American military newspaper, never saw combat in Vietnam.

In fact, he never ended up over there during his three-year Army enlistment as a Special Forces medic.

Yet, he has possibly seen more hotspots than a California firefighter.

It helps to have a world atlas to track all the countries he covered during his AP career as a foreign correspondent.

From wars to revolutions to superpower summits, he's been on the ground covering them.

From the Vatican to the Olympics to World Cup soccer, he had a front row seat on history.

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