New Hampshire Christmas Story

Funniest Christmas Story IT was 1970 and I was 17 years old. Problems at home lead to me leaving school and becoming a US Marine two days before Christmas. Right out of Paris Island involved in a car accident the brain injury left me with no memory at all. 17 years old (no memory of family, friends or any thing) when I was discharged from the Portsmouth Navel Hospital. A mistake in my discharge orders sent me back to active duty. So I was starting my overseas tour in and out of the Vietnam Conflict for thirty-one months. I came back with three more combat related disabilities to go along with the TBI. The MC dropped me back into the real world with no support or medical help. I was twenty-years old with no memory of live back here at all. Over there I was a Sgt. in charge of real Marines and back here I was mental, a troublemaker, some would call me a baby killer all in a place I had no under-standing of. A child hood friend back a few years from the Conflict (who I did not know) (Veteran helping Veteran) was attending UNH. Fred must have recognized what I was. He gave me a room to live in and got me to go to college. Fred died a few years ago but Veteran-helping Veterans is a Christmas Story that should be talked about. The Fosters newspaper is a joke in the fact they do not print response articles that question or disagree with their product. The funniest Christmas story is the children even today that will go off to fight for Freedom of the Press to come home to a world that does not accept us. Government officials are afraid of us for many will be homeless and considered bums. Drugs, Alcohol and dirt something we lived in and with over there will become the warning signs back here to invoke the safety issue by politicians to incarcerate or isolate us back here. Disabilities (seen and unseen) (mental and Physical) will cause civilized society to ignore and reject us using the phrase “they wasted such good up bringing. No one back here sees or understands PTSD and or TBI. The VA and civilized society do not grasp that it starts sometimes years after Honorable Discharge and or grows and becomes more intense as years mount in our age. The reality of to see and know if this is real and we did come back to what a place we do not belong. The VA ironically uses our disabilities to invoke the safety issue to Red Flag for humiliation and isolation to drive us to the streets to show respect for those we fought for. Veteran helping Veterans is the reason for us buying 101 Stepping Stone Rd Lee NH to build cabins on for homeless Veterans to live and try to come home if ever. I am there (one of these scary individuals to you) but luck to marry a great wife gave me a chance. NH and the VA have stopped my medical care for combat related disabilities and the Fosters censors the facts as the Red Flag flies. Fred saw in a child hood friend something this civilized society cannot conceive in the US Military Veteran released into a society that will not accept us. The funniest Christmas story is we did it for you. If you want to help U.S. Military Veterans do not just hear what we are saying but listen and understand. Censoring our stories is the funniest Christmas story in a sad way. Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper fi 465 Packers falls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-781-3839