Consequences and Pain 6-05-08

Consequences and Pain 6-05-08
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
I am officially a candidate for District 21 NH State Senate
Last night I did not sleep very well because of all the twitching and movement caused by the mussel spasms in my back and head pain. I brought this on my self because yesterday I went back to the Maine Coast to volunteer help a lady with cancer fix her house. I delayed filing with the State for District 21 senate seat, to help some one in need just seemed the right thing to do. To sit around the house knowing that if I do anything, that the pain will get worse, live a life, of a vegetable. I prefer to suffer in pain, avoid medication and make something of my life. I have a head injury from a car accident just after boot camp. I to this day have no memory of my life before the accident. I did the next 31 months overseas during the Vietnam Conflict because of an administration error. I should have received a medical discharge. I rose to the rank of Sgt receiving two more disabilities during separate combat support mission. Last year a VA Dr. told me that I suffer from PTSD because, since I came back to the “World” U.S. that I relive traumatic events deep in the “bush” as American Advisor on Convoys. The VA committed a crime by stopping a 100% service connected disabled Veteran’s medical for political self gain. My VA medical has been restored but it is substandard and inadequate. I now receive this care so the paper work demonstrates care is given to cover up the crimes.
I watched the Red Sox on TV last night only to keep slipping into a state of depression. The Depression was not from the pain, it was because nothing makes since. Men playing games, while our children go off to war to die. I kept flashing back to Armed Services network listening to the Red Sox. I watched men in my platoon get hit by hung ordinance or blown off the runway. I feel the consequences of my lack of compassion or ability to give aid until the mission was completed. The cold hard attitude that I demonstrated with others lives to fight for a country that I had no memory of. The ability that in hand to hand combat I could stick a bayonet in another human being with out guilt and move on to the next mission. This event is a daily event in my life. I have relived these events over and over. It is the Consequence for what Veterans have given to this nation.
I am not asking for you to give Veterans pity. There are many veterans out their that are completely normal. I am not asking for any special hand outs to Veterans. We should be treated as every day citizens with equal rights. I am asking that the laws protect Veterans equally to all other citizens of the United States. I am running for District 21 Senate seat because we need someone in office that will represent all the citizens equally with out fear from the consequences for rocking the Boat.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper FI