I volunteered 11-10-08

I volunteered 11-10-08
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
People, Citizen’s join our U.S. Military every Day for many different reasons yet all have one in common. To protect and serve “We the People”. This Nation (U.S.) has many reasons to be thank full. Yet do we the people recognize and cherish those reasons so that future generation can have equal or better lives. Have the people become complacent with life that we now neglect our guaranteed constitutional rights as if they will always be there. I write this letter today for two reasons. The first is in reading the newspaper today I noticed NH press association gave an award to a NH newspaper. The criteria for these awards can not be to high. The ethical (back bone) reason newspapers were given Constitutional protection is because printing the truth and the opinion of the people was recognized as a needed checks and balance to correct the wrongs in government. Our forefathers saw the need in order to form a more perfect union the people needed a method to communicate to the citizens across the U.S. The every day citizens that wrote the Constitution over 200 years ago understood greed and power would attempt to influence some and it is designated as We the People’s “obligation” to speak up and correct these wrongs to keep a more perfect union. Our military is to protect we the people from foreign invaders trying to take our freedoms away. These brave young men go off to foreign soil hoping to come back to enjoy equal protection of the law and constitutional protection against government interference.
My second reason is the newspaper in NH failed to say Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps. Here is a group of children that were willing to go off at such a young age to become the men that have earned the Honor to be called U.S. Marines. We have newspapers giving awards for what? A disabled U.S. Marine writes opinion letters that expose wrongs in government and these award winning newspapers refuse to inform their readers. Brother newspapers in writing ask this 100% disabled Marine to commit suicide yet my words are not good enough to print as a response. The NH, VA director and the NH governor Lynch asked this Marine to commit suicide yet the award winning newspapers refuse to inform the public. The VA stops this disabled Marines medical care for service (some Combat related) injuries and the award winning newspapers refuse to inform the public. Hell NH put a 100% disabled U.S. Marine in jail (for six months before the bogus charges were dropped) as a terrorist to stop this Marines free speech and yet the award winning newspapers did not inform the public.
I would have to admit that my real reason is I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps which these award winning newspapers neglected to do today.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi