Veteran’s Affairs Scandal 4-22-08

Veteran’s Affairs Scandal 4-22-08
A copy to Dr Potenza at Manchester NH VAH and VAIG
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
I am one of millions of U.S. Military personal that is a No-Body. We go off to fight and serve a nation to return as second class citizens. The artificial praise and flag waving makes the citizens that we protected feel good but does little to relieve the bad things that we did to keep you save. We as children went off to a war or conflict because our leaders told us it was the right thing to do. We lived in some horrifying sub-human conditions, killed and was killed or maimed our selves, to relive these events in flash-backs every day for the rest of our lives. The lack of emotion to different events is a error that our loved ones just can not understand. Elected officials send us off but will never understand or care for the ones lucky enough to come home. We become a No-Body that is a drain on the budget.
We as (children) make it so newspapers can print the truth with out fear of retaliation. The opinion page is the peoples way of informing others about the wrongs in government. Newspapers do not want to believe that a 100% disabled U.S. Marine’s medical can be stopped for political self gain. No one wants to believe that the VA in NH and the Boston Globe would tell a disabled Veteran suicide would be better than this veteran writing another letter to the editor. The truth is I have it in their writing to me. Disabled Veteran’s now must form groups to take the Veterans affairs government agency to court to get help. Not a single Veteran should be left on the street with out care. Healthy Veterans come home with silent demons not understanding the devastating effects destroying their remaining lives. Fears of retaliation censor the Veteran’s opinion because it does not meet the editors understanding.
Suicide among Veteran’s is high, yet the Veterans Affairs people lie to the public because we are No-Bodies. I got my dream of seeing the U.S. before I died. I have complete amnesia from an injury receive while serving. I have two other separate combat related injuries. Between society telling me what I did was wrong and my reliving my first kill every day in flash-backs my night mare never ends. I have everything, great wife, three great daughters, nice home, friends and I volunteer to help others every day. Why do I feel that I do not belong here. I have many times came with in inches of ending it. My first memory of the U.S. is being spit on at the airport and called a “Baby Killer”. The NH government put me in jail as a terrorist because I write letters to the editor. The State police and Sheriff’s office harass my wife and family. The VA has the local police do safety checks to harass my family to get me to commit suicide. Suicide by Veteran’s is the government secret solution to keeping the budget low for veteran’s care.
This is not a hate full letter. This is one No-Body Veteran’s belief. I will not violate the law but I will not be silent. I am a No-Body, so censorship by the newspapers and retaliation by government officials goes unnoticed. Suicide is a dream solution to something that you that have never been there will ever understand. I do not write for my 15 minutes of fame. It is every citizens duty to correct the wrong of government and see that our Constitution is not diminished. I am proud to be a No-Body U.S. Citizen and I love the United States of America.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi