To Mr. Chris Sununu and Maggie Hassan

Hope Mr. Sununu reads this Sgt Salvatore Giunta was awarded the Medal of Honor. He wrote another view in the opinion page of the Manchester Union Leader that clearly shows censoring any US Military Veterans letters does harm. “I fear they do not comprehend the full weight of the burden we carry or the price we pay when we return from battle”. It is now less than ten percent of our population serves in our US Military and twenty-five percent of the homeless are US Military Veterans. The Vietnam Veteran was rejected and now today’s Veterans acquire the same if not worse rejection because the public just cannot comprehend. The praise and the welcome home and all the little jesters are great but the one thing you cannot do for us is take away where we have been and done. PTSD and TBI fester and grow as time passes and no one can see or understand. Even the doctors treating us at the VA hospital use drugs to quite us but they have never been so they cannot conceive the flashback to reality of if it is real. There were no heroes over there. Some such as Sgt Giunta deserve awards for actions but there were few if any that never did not do their job and fight to the bitter end. This is why what my wife is letting me do at 101 Stepping Stone Rd is so important. This will be a place where homeless veterans will not have to sign in. A place (single person units) they can call home for as long as it takes to come back mentally and or physically if ever. There will be no rent or any other charge for these men and women that gave it all to live. You see my wife understands what these men and women are going through because she suffered my life to see I did not end up on the street. This NH Governor and the new one along with the entire Executive Council must read and hear what the NH US Military Veteran is saying even if it is not clear enough for you to understand. Our government cannot ever label us a danger to silence our words. I came back in 74 to a nation with no memory of life back here at all. The MC dumped me into a society that could not accept my command and destroy attitude. I suffered from a broken back, loss of most hearing and PTSD without medical care. I had a Traumatic Brain Injury right out of Parris Island and was sent overseas by mistake. I am now 100% service-connect disabled with combat related disabilities that the VA and NH government have stopped my medical care for the combat disabilities until I stop writing these ridicules opinion letters asking for help. I lost the last election partly on the fact the newspapers call me a danger to justify for the safety of the community and state keeping the public ignorant to the true. I am a no-body that came back to a world that cannot accept what we are. Staff Sgt Salvatore Giunta is a hero and I hope US citizens read his article of “Another View” in the Wednesday, November 28 issue of the Union Leader and try to comprehend. We the US Military Veteran do not need all the hoopla (although it is nice). This letter I hope makes the two NH Governors and the NH Executive Council see 101 Stepping Stone Rd is so important. The pubic needs to know to stop all the ignorance slowing down and stopping the project. Help this veteran help today’s returning US Military Veterans not go through what we did. Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-781-3839