Yes I Voted 11-4-08

Yes I Voted 11-4-08
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
We have a government made up of the people. We have checks and balances to insure that government powers never dominate the people. Then why does the Veteran’s Administration not stop the NH director from committing crimes by telling a 100% disabled Veteran to kill him self? Do my medical records tell the public that I am a danger to others and that is why people are afraid to help? My records are RED FLAGGED to frighten VA workers. I was an average child raised in Alton NH before I joined the Marine Corps. I went away to fight for our nation and returned with four permanent life changing disabilities. Three came from separate combat related missions. If veteran’s matter! why can the VA stop my medical care for injuries received in the line of duty? Do the records show that my medical was restarted but it is sub-standard and limited? If people are afraid of me and say my mental and medical condition requires that I take medicine, why not speak up? Does the VA records show that I am receiving adequate medical care, this is why my complaints are ignored? The U.S. government because of NH elected officials have cast this veteran into a dungeon of isolation with no help. The news is so biased that they believe the government officials, so the newspapers refuses to print my letters to the editor telling the American people what is happening. Does U.S. Rep Shea-Porter have so much influence in D.C. that on her word my service connected medical condition can be used to lock me up? Does the elected officials in NH have so much power that they can deprive this veteran of his guaranteed constitutional right to a “Redress of Grievances” with out the newspapers telling the people? I have followed all the legal and law bidden ways to make the public aware of what this nation (U.S.) is doing to a 100%disabled Veteran. I have not violated any laws. The newspapers keep silent, it makes no since.
I ran for election this past primary. The newspapers took away any chance of the voters understanding my position. The news published biased untrue articles and refused to print my opinion letters. I would like to take you into my daily world for just one second. I am on the verge of going on a trip deep in my mind. At least I keep telling my self this. I feel the lonely ness of isolation deep in the “Bush” while on convoy. My world of riding on a Thai truck with a wooden bench seat, over loaded, with surplus equipment for some isolated friendly camp. Riding for any where from 12 to 18 hours on a convoy with 27 other trucks all with people that do not speak American. Stopping at a friendly village for a few hours shut eye, eating and refueling. I carry my M-16 up side down, unloaded because I am under orders not to lock and load until in eminent danger of death. I am captured by three enemy soldiers and taken from the village. Two fall asleep at the camp fire, I untie my hands and slip away. I kill the one on guard to get my M-16 back and escape. I take this action as every day life because I have no memory of any life before the Marine Corps. I feel proud to finally have passed the test to becoming a full Marine. With a broken back, loss of hearing, and no memory, killed a fellow human being. I am proud because in my mind I believe this is what life is like back in the U.S. I ran for election because I believe that I learned life was different back here. I believed that we had laws that every one had to abide by. If I had realized that two worlds existed and by my killing an innocent human being to allow judges and government officials back here in this “world” destroy U.S. citizens lives for self gratification I would have died over there. You do not want to go into my world. Many veterans over the years go into this world to often. I feel it is my duty to attempt because for some reason can write letters to others to bring you there. My letters a lot of people tell me are repetitive and don’t make since. Try seeing it through my world. I write some words or even complete letters with not knowing where I am. People back here do not even believe I am good enough to let the public read my opinion letters. This makes me, not good enough for the public to learn my position while running for election. I some times wake up deep in the “bush” believing some day I will see the U.S. for the first time that I will remember. I just have to see a world that other Marines describe to me where reality is not just trying to live another day. Did I really kill and get away or am I dreaming this world up to accept what is around me. Does the U.S. really exist and it is made up of a government of the people that respect and obey the laws. Did I really get to cast a ballot or was it just an absentee ballot back at the base camp. Will I wake up or am I really still in the bush and my distorted dream is what the words of other Marines allowed me to see a place that really does not exist. Is the United States of America just an illusion of what Marines want to believe is there if we live long enough to come back.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi