J D Managing editor VT
I volunteer almost every day helping others not in writing but in real person with the needy on the street or the homeless veterans in the park. I have done this since coming back from the Vietnam Conflict in 74. I strongly believe that my volunteering is my obligation to pay for coming back alive. Life to me is a waste of time if we allow what others gave their lives for to be in VAIN. We the US Military Veterans learn in a different way the haves and haves not to what the true meaning of freedom in a civilized society are. Many people (including Veterans) have problems far worse than I. My answer to that has to be “anyone right or anyone individual can not be diminished at no time by our government”. I talk about the wrongs the VA, NH and federal government is doing to me in retribution to stop my freedom of speech but they do this same thing to far too many US Military Veterans silenced by circumstances. Freedom of speech has to be one of the best ways to maintain a government of we the people. My volunteering to help others or my writing to correct the wrongs in government may not mean as much to those that did not serve in our military but I will never believe it is a waste of time.
The statement that “I do not care about anyone but myself” could be a very hurtful statement. Maybe that is the way people perceive me. Freedom is a great avenue for it gives everyone the right to his or her own opinion. The VA is a government department established to help all US Military veterans. We as a civilized society can never leave one behind to satisfy the editors of Veterans Today. To accuse me of abusing the writers of VT is a very powerful statement in that my letters are truthful and accurate. Government retribution against any citizen cannot be tolerated no matter even if some in this civilized society believe time eventually means we accept one individual is a lost victim. Government retribution against a 100% disabled US military Veteran by stopping medical care for even one day is a inhuman act that time cannot be the reason to justify the illegal accomplishment. My four service connected disabilities may limit my abilities to help others as much as is needed but at no time does it establish that “I do not care”.
This letter to you Jim Dean of the Veterans Today editor’s staff may mean that you silence my words. My continuous volunteering to help all others even the ones that have in the past harmed me allows me to learn from the hurtful acts of others. To scoop a dead guy story is your view of my finding an avenue to extend the knowledge of other citizens in this civilized society. It is like when I was a US Marine Sgt finding a way to complete the mission learning from the obstacles the enemy so careless inflicted.
Veterans Today just in the name are a means of communication for US military veterans to tell others good and bad. No matter how many times the same wrongful act is repeated until every citizen in the USA believes in correcting it shows the abuser is not the veteran but the system. My opinion may be that Veterans Today is losing the reason it was started. It can be compared to the Veterans Administration harming veterans that it is obligated to care for because over time the public has learned to accept some US Military veterans are not worth civilized societies time. Justification cannot be forgetting as time expires.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
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