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Well I didn't exactly see the mutiliated body. When I was seventeen, I went on a Peace Corps type experience to Nicaragua for a couple of months in the middle of a measles epidemic. I got 100 hours of EMT and innoculation training (gave about 2000 intermuscular shots to kids and adults alike) and some conversational spanish and in that summer I saw stuff that soldiers don't see. I helped deliver a baby, I saw dozens of kids die of dehydration and dysentry and disease. I helped bury many. I got shot at by the Sandinistas. They were just getting started then. Lousy shots. It wasn't really dramatic...they were waaaaay out of range. But I often think that those events shaped my life in the direction that it has moved. Army officer. Law Enforcement officer. Inner city high school teacher. Firearms Instructor.