The Volunteer 12-3-08

The Volunteer 12-3-08
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
I volunteer to help others. I have not violated the law. I am 100% disabled from my time serving during the Vietnam Conflict in the US Marine Corps. Why am I not protected against cruel and criminal acts of abuse by government personal. I volunteer every day to help someone. It does not matter whom you are. I have asked nothing and when people try to give me a gift or something for my help I refuse. Why do we have the American’s with Disabilities Act if the government can use my military disabilities as a weapon to stop me. I write this letter because of what happen to me yesterday while I volunteered helping another. We stopped at this business to fix a desk lock on one of the owners desks. I left to get a tool from the truck, when I returned the owner was telling my friend about the zoning problems they had trying to build in this town. He was describing a person in Lee that volunteers to help others. His comments made me proud to have come home. He did not know my name or whom I was but his description of some one willing to give so much and ask nothing brought a hidden smile to my face. He described my art pile on Packersfalls Rd which brought a light to my friends eyes. I would have stayed anonymous but my friend introduced me as that person. This is why giving is so much better and it makes life better for others.
I every day bump into people that I have helped in the past, to school children that are now grown up or kids that I taught art to in schools across NH. I have adults that remember me from when they were children because I sat and talked to their parent in a time of need. I have county and government officials that thank me for some volunteer act that I spontaneously did to help some one or community event. The local Foster’s newspaper once gave me plaque for my volunteer work.
My disabilities are used as a weapon because I will not stop volunteering my time to help a Madbury NH family. Judge Fauver used the power of the courts to aid the Madbury NH selectmen using government powers to seek and get revenge on local residents that the selectmen do not like. People are afraid to help me because if the government and law enforcement can do this to me; if people help? it could and probably would happen to them next. People are afraid of the power of government. Even my friends tell me how much they support what I do but please do not use their names. The Newspapers censor my opinion letters to protect the establishment. My VA medical care was stopped for my for disabilities that I received defending the rights you as a nation deprive me of. Three of my four disabilities are combat related.
It has nothing to do with what NH is doing to me but I dream every day of killing my self because of the conflict of what I did as a US Marine and what society tells me are acts that rejects me from living in a civilized society. You have no idea the pain every day from my broken back, head injury, the humiliation of not being able to hear what others are saying to me from my being blown of the runway, or trying to explain the mental lapse of time that some times just occur as my mind takes a trip to times best forgotten.
I volunteer and continue to help because if the US is to stay free we must not let the establishment win. I came back alive and I owe those that gave their lives over the history of this nation this respect to make the United States better for all.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi