Tom McDemott 5-05-09

Tom McDemott 5-05-09
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
This is a return letter to Tom. I do hope that Tom does not mind that I am publishing this letter as one. I have never said to anyone that the world could not hear my words freely. I stand behind every thing that I say. First of all Tom, I want to thank you for dropping me a line. I want you to know it does not matter that you did not see a war zone. Any one that served deserves and gets my greatest respect. I understand there are people that want to feel as I do but you fail to understand that they can not. As I can not feel as they do. I did not experience being a tunnel rat, climbing a hill under fire, just because a superior wanted that hill. I only know what it is like to be the only person deep in the bush that speaks American on convoy as American Advisor. I only know what it is like to kill a child with a bayonet to get my M-16 back and escape. I know the lonely times of waiting to die and the joist times when that one beer a day is engulfed. I know what it is like to crash in a C-117 and having a sniper bullet pass with in inches of my head. I have jumped to my death only to safely land and move on. The problem is it that it does not a matter with these veterans moving on. Where do we move to? How do you get the memories out of you head every time some one in this civilized society question ethics of what the military has done. It is not a matter of waiting to obtain benefits. It is a matter of this civilized society curtails the benefits to obtain money to spend on their pet projects. Veterans are no longer needed so forget them, this is what happens.
The media does not want to tell the plight of veterans. What the media wants is to hype up news to make papers sell. Veterans feel a part of society. That is our point. You just do not get it. Our actions are something this civilized society can not accept. I am a baby killer. I launched and stopped aircraft that destroyed thousands of lives. I am proud of every thing that I did. Where do I go, when I do not belong?
It is not that the federal government does not enforce the laws as they pertain to veterans. You see we gave so that the Constitution could protect every citizens equally. That is the point. People have become so complacent with life that the Constitution is a worthless piece of paper. People have to understand that the homeless veteran on the street or the one in your home that can not forget, can not adjust, because you can not under stand what it is like to day after day year after year die every single day until life no longer matters. You can not see that taking life is as easy as eating mothers apple pie. You just do your job hoping the short calendar ends or life is over.
Your words mean a lot to me. You are a Veteran and I respect you. I did not believe in God in country. If there was a God there would not be war. I am not alone and I understand this. There are to many of me out there that this civilized society is neglecting. I do not care if they see me but seeing those Veterans returning today can not be aloud to receive the miss understandings of yesterday.
Thank you Tom for your letter. You are doing a great benefit to Veterans by trying to help those in need. My only joy will be when I am successful seeing the light.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi