New Hampshire tourist

Insult to injury Damage the news media can do that does not show up for years. Yesterday I was talking down town with a friend. A friend of my friend’s joined us and after awhile he asked if I was the Peter Macdonald in the newspaper. The conversation was about cutting trees to put the septic and first buildings on the Veteran Resort-Chapel property. This third person asked about the cost to veterans living there. I told him it was free for homeless Veterans to get back on their feet and may be adjust from combat to real life. His question was not strange because many people over the years have referred to me in the same manner ‘Why would someone like you want to help other people especially veterans”. Shocked my friend stated, “What are you talking about”? It came out in next few minutes that he saw I was running for NH State Senate as he and his wife would read it in the paper and laugh as they discussed if I was the one (years ago) put in jail. The newspaper never did print that the bogus government charges were dropped. I am proud of going to jail for I was standing for our Constitutional rights and to stop my government abusing their power. I am proud of being a US Marine and every aspect of what I did as a US Marine to protect and defend our nation. I have four disabilities each received at a separate time and three being combat related. I to this day do not remember any part of my life before the MC. I met my family and friends when I returned from my thirty-one months over seas. My mind developed and grew from living in and out of combat. I had no memory of civilian life or round-eyed people. The MC dropped me back into the real world “USA” one day and just left me to survive on my own. I started volunteering to help other people as my best way to qualify the mission and learn the best way to stay back here in the USA. I still to this day volunteer to help others almost every day to accept that I came back alive as better men than I did not. I managed to alienate my family and friends completely in my first years back because of my actions and reactions in every day situations. One day a person a year ahead of me in high school had returned from Vietnam a few years before me. I did not remember we were once friends. He knew every aspect of my life growing up and realized what my coming back was doing to me. He gave me a place to live in his apartment to get me off the street. He got me into school under the GI Bill. Fred Young served in the Air Force in combat and put his hand out to help another US Military Person in need. This is why someone like me in the greatest nation in the world is willing to help all US Military Veterans no matter what they have done or where they are at mentally or physically. We are all equal. The free press can damage me all they want but a US Marine as well as all the Branches of the US Military is what the USA is all about. To censor the word of the Veteran Resort-Chapel is a determent to the free society we protected. Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-781-3839