San Salvador. 1995. Former government soldier learning to cane chairs after the war. Many soldiers lost their feet to homemade landmines laid by guerillas, often made from nitrogen in imported fertilizer. The 12 year civil war left several thousand soldiers without feet. A homemade landmine would normally maim, while the U.S.-made Claymore landmines used by government forces against geurillas usually killed the person who tripped it. The brief «job-training» after the war was inadequate to help the maimed to find meaningful work again. Most of the government soldiers had been forcibly conscripted. Most were themselves, rural peasants. After the war, disabled guerillas and government soldiers united to lobby for more government aid for ex-combatants.