Life 2-26-08

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Life 2-26-08
P Macdonald 465 Packersfals Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 NH.Veteran@yahoo.com
   I joined the U.S. Marine Corps at 17.  I was a wild kid with everything in life to look forward to.  Back in 1970 it was and is pretty much as the children joining our military forces today. Bright energetic children whom felt the need to serve our country first, before pursuing college, girl friend or just the future life. These children are promised college tuition, training in technical fields and a chance to travel while still receiving a pay check.  These children do not realize in boot camp they will be brain washed into a fighting machine with no ethics or feelings.  Their friends see defending our country as the other person's job, not theirs.  They graduate high school, go off to college, meet the perfect woman, party and have a grand old time.  Eventually our friends settle down become judges, Doctors, Lawyers, CEO's or just enjoy their freedom. 
   The child whom served and defended our nation returns a Veteran to be dropped into a society that they no longer belong.  The Traumatic events of war or conflict leave a scaring impression on these children's sub-conscious to curtail any future success in life.  They now can kill with out emotions or feelings.  They have trouble relating to others and find their actions are questioned and disapproved. They loose their tempers or become depressed and unable to relate.  People in general discuss the horrors of war and the illegal acts of our children in uniform that have no experience them selves in uniform.  Newspapers question our actions, friends and family forgive us for what we did.  Society tells us what we did in uniform is not anything a civilized person would do.  That child that returned a Veteran now has a conflict growing in his mind of separation and loneness because that once energetic child is now existing in a society that he does not belong and that does not want him.  The Veterans successful friends that never served look down and wonder why this once bright energetic child wasted their live.  How did they end up homeless and in such poor medical shape?  No one wants to realize these are Veterans. These are the children that gave every thing so that so many others could become successful and enjoy their lives.
   Some of us just suffer from the permanent disabilities received defending this nation only to have our medical stopped by some government official as a weapon against us.  The NH governor can not lower himself to talk to a disabled Veteran.  The news censors the opinion of disabled veterans believing society does not need to hear such babble.  You question why so many returning U.S. military Veterans commit suicide but you crap on us as to make the question a token jester so society believes you are a good politician.  We commit suicide, society does not care or want to know the pain or hidden secrets that destroyed a 17 year old child for a nation that just does not care.  You use our health care as a person with a dog bone trying to get a dog to sit up.  Are the words of a Veteran to damming to print in any U.S. Newspaper.  That once 17 year old U.S. Marine gave everything only to be rejected by the Governor of the State this Veteran calls home.  New Hampshire.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper FI                           

[kola]

Thanks for sharing your insight. The after effects of war on the soul are often worse than death itself.

Kola