(Leo Cimino and Norman Spector)  I got a great jungle story from Norm while gathering information about his family. We shared a lot about the things we did while living in the Canal Zone. In our youth, we both spent a lot of time in the jungle with friends, exploring, and building forts. We certainly cross paths with critters, snakes, and spiders, but never had the scary encounter that his brother had while washing his mess kit in a narrow creek during a camping and hunting trip in Panama. Having the mess kit was instrumental in the unexpected encounter.