I’ve met one Peace Corps veteran. She did not seem traumatized by the experience but was a bit dispirited. She talked about corruption in the country she was sent to assist.
Many years ago when my nephews were about 17, my whole family vacationed in Honduras at a very small resort.
One evening my nephews and I were seated at the beach front cabana, two college age girls came over and joined us. They from Texas and stationed with the Peace Corps in a tiny village in the interior of Honduras and were at the resort with their parents who had flown down for vacation.
Talk about naieve, idealistic twits, even my nephews shook their heads at what these chicks were saying. One statement that I remember clearly when they were telling us what they were doing was "they're there trying to "empower" the women......."
Well, that's all fine and good but the women they were trying to empower live in shacks with no glass in the windows, dirt floors, doubtful electricity and wash their clothes by hand in the nearby river..........
There was a dance hall and bar in the town where we were and the two twits wanted to meet us there that night. I left it up to my nephews and they laughed and said no way!