Maggie Hassan NH governor elect, Chris Sununu, NH

Reaching for help Reaching for help others tell you that it is the right thing to do. “It takes a warrior to reach for help. The sayings go on and on about it. To reach is not all that easy. The consequences can have a lasting social and economic impact on your life as it exists in this civilized society. Will Governor Elect Maggie Hassan be just as scared and rejecting as past governors and politicians. I will not be violent, as this is the country that I lived through some of the most violent times for. It does not matter as our news media and government officials use my service-connected disabilities to scare the pubic to the danger they want to be. I have seen many rays of hope over the years. New Hampshire Executive Councilor Chris Sununu is my present ray of hope. My trust when a high-powered leader of our state to come out in a rainstorm to walk land (where no other politician will get that close for the danger they see in me) was given to him. The useless dangerous waste seen by most upper class society of the homeless bums on the street is wrong. Twenty-five percent of these homeless are US Military Veterans. Reaching for help is not all that easy. The VA rejects and ignores some that do not meet their protocol. Others of us miss used drugs and alcohol to survive combat conditions and refuse to be put in that medicated controlled state of mind to get VA help. The homeless US Military Veteran population now exceeds 600 in the State of NH alone. Many of these homeless will rather stay homeless, as government controlled Veteran homeless shelters are little more than a controlled prison system for those unable to come back mentally as well as physically to a society that does not want us. The Veteran Resort-Chapel is going to be small single person cabins built on eleven-acres we bought for homeless veterans to call home free of charge. My family stayed with me through many Flashbacks to give me a chance. My wife gave up our life savings meant for trips in our retirement because she wants other returning US Military Veterans not to go through what our government put US Military Veterans like me through. I believe Mr. Sununu did not serve in the Military but over and over in my head in some way he saw. A veteran helping Veterans that has reached out for help only to have that hand cut off sees life back here in my own way. I hope in Governor Elect Maggie Hassan seeing the dilemmas of society against disabled she will be as trustworthy as I honestly believe Mr. Sununu is. I have told the VA in my letters many times of my attempted suicides. Many times until I stop writing opinion letters just like this one my medical care for combat related disabilities is stopped. Our government using retribution to stop freedom of speech and the newspapers using freedom of the press to limit a disabled veteran reaching makes my entire point of the difficulties coming back alive points out. I am not reaching out to these Veterans. I am giving them a place to be their home as long as they need it. We do not need your sympathy or medication to try to come home. You cannot see what is in our heads or even see what we did as possible. We did these inhuman acts over and over just to survive and because, we were ordered too. Now you use what is in our heads to stop us from reaching. To censor this letter justifies everything that I see in why reaching is so hard. Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-781-3839