Ten Hours

Ten Hours

Lt Col Spencer of Concord NH writes in response to children being in our military. I (Peter Macdonald) would not wish on anyone my time in the Marine Corps but I would not trade a second of that time. I was seventeen when I joined and saw and have done many things people back here cannot even conceive as humanly possible. The most important lesson learned as a US Marine is the love and meaning of being a US citizen and the responsibility to all the people. I came back at twenty-one to a world, unaccepted from my first step off the plane in SF. I came back to the USA with no memory of ever being here before. Thirty-one months I spent overseas in and out of combat situations with a dream of meeting the lady called mom that wrote me every week. PTSD and the effects of TBI left the people around me to reject and push away the uncivilized human being they labeled me back here. Medical care was limited or unheard of from the VA because I accepted my honorable discharge with out my four disabilities being stated in the discharge papers. The child enters the military to learn responsibility through a way of life-death inconceivable to the people safely protected back here. Children enter our military but the Lt Col should talk about the homelessness and rejection of the one’s that come back alive that do not belong.
The other side of how it is to come back and not know or have any idea that civilian life really exists. Ten hours I spent on the couch yesterday from pain in my back and flashbacks to a time unacceptable even to the VA medical care. Combat related disabilities my wife spent the day worrying and caring for, as I was afraid the VA would send armed law enforcement under the Red Flag public safety policy if called. The VA stops my medical care until I stop writing opinion letters of government wrongs under our guaranteed free speech in our Constitution. It is not just me that the VA and our Government does this to. Hundreds if not thousands of US Military Veterans are rejected every day to become homeless or estranged from their family and friends because of untreated disabilities. The newspapers refuse to print my opinion letters for the safety of the public. I wish the Lt Col would tell me where it all ends.
The newspapers will infer what a danger this US Marine is to the public but refuses to print my response to them. Public safety allows government personal to diminish even a US Marine’s guaranteed Constitutional rights. I write in response to Lt Col Spencer’s letter only to be censored for I am that child that came back to a world that I do not belong. I am not looking for your sympathy or anything else. My response letter is for all the US Military Veterans coming home today that this civilized society will do the same or worse to. To censor is the most harmful act this civilized society can do to another individual. Tell all sides of every article.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
465 Packers falls Rd Lee NH 03824 602-781-3839