Use Less Newspapers 1-26-09

Use Less Newspapers 1-26-09
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
Newspapers get thinner in volume implying that there is less news to print. Maybe a response from a reader about the Don Galloway story will get printed. How the Ironsides detective wrote funny and amusing editorials for the paper. Maybe instead of funny and amusing the readers want to be informed about how UNH Hockey coach gets almost 4 hundred thousand a year. May be all the readers want is to be informed about what is happening using the most important source of information. That would be the opinion of the people. How about the opinion that talks about the 4% pay raise congress tacked on to a bill so that our elected officials can rake in the money as the U.S. goes broke. Maybe the words from Veterans describing what we went through. People say talking about it makes accepting what we did easier to live with. Society says that we need to do more for the Veterans. Society forgets those silent veterans, as the saying goes why help those that go unnoticed. I understand why Veterans are reluctant to speak about over there. Society can not accept the atrocity veterans inflicted on others (as we did) to keep the U.S. safe and free. If we talk about it we are crying and looking for pity. We are proud of our actions which society calls us demented war Mongols for. Newspapers are getting thinner because they fail to fill the void. Advertisers are telling them what is ok to print, which is not what the readers want and need to hear.
No matter whom the truth harms the newspaper should not care. People want to be informed on what is the real deal. Not what the editors think will sell more advertising. The truth (even when it harms society it self) must be told. Freedom exists because, for a government to represent the best interest of all citizens equally, we must have an informed society. Reality is that I am a 100% disabled Veteran. The newspapers imply that I am a danger to society refusing to print my opinion letters or response. How dangerous can a person that volunteers every day to help others be? I ran for elected state office this past September only to have the newspaper harm my character to interferers with the voters choice. The newspapers are harming the citizens of the United States by covering for a select few in our society. Freedom of the press is not for protecting the newspapers but so society can hear the truth no matter which powerful people get harmed. U.S. citizens must be informed that the newly elected NH officials refuse to help a 100% disabled veteran because of what the newspapers did to him.
The people need to hear how the American Legion and VFW disown a 100% disabled veteran that questions their political powerful connections. The people need to hear how the NH Veteran’s hospital stopped treating a 100% disabled veteran’s service connected disabilities for political considerations. The people need to hear how the silent demons of war never leave the thoughts of Veterans that were able to come home.
The question is are people willing to accept a thinner newspaper or does society want to hear the truth. I can not make the newspapers print my opinion letters, but I would like to be around when society finally learns what NH did to a disabled veteran that volunteers every day to help others. I am the reality that tells (Veteran’s should never come home to a society that rejects our opinion) the thin newspapers can not stand the extra weight. Reality is that I will not be here on that day because I do not belong, for what I did in the name of PEACE.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi