Macdonald Volunteers again 6-12-08

Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217

The way people tell me that I am a danger to society, a mental case, someone that just rambles on the same subject day after day how is it that every day I volunteer to help others. Kind of ironic that you trust me with your children, yet you allow the State of NH to put me in jail as a terrorist. Today will be my third and finally day of helping Strafford County Conservation do their yearly teaching. Children from around NH (Dover, Hampton, Berlin, Manchester, Derry, Rochester and many others are bused in. This year I have been doing the erosion tent, teaching children how water can effect our lives if we do not control it. I have an assistant this year. A girl that just graduated from Oyster River and is headed to Cornell University. She is great for some one so young. When I forget or get stuck with what to say, she naturally fills the words as if it was planned. The Children and teachers are great also. The Children are well behaved and attentive to what we are saying. The classroom is a 10’x10’ canopy tent with six bales of hay set in front of a model of several different types of erosion. We have ten minutes to grab the children’s interest, of the rest of their lives before the next group seats. I believe that we do that by talking about how in their own back yards erosion occurs. We talk with the child for their ideas of how to solve the problems. We grab their minds for only ten minutes but deep in their memories the thoughts grow for the rest of their lives.

I volunteer across the state of NH every day helping others. It was inspiring to see so many young adults volunteering at the Strafford County event this year. Volunteering is a way to give and the thanks is seeing how it helps others and builds a nation.

The people of NH see me as what the state and news media want, so that you are afraid of me. I have violated no laws yet, you allow the state to destroy my family and I because I speak openly about the wrongs in government. The news media refuses to announce that I am running for state senate, but they announce others daily. I volunteer every day of the year since 1974, when I returned from a conflict helping others.

Ironic how the State of NH and the news media can openly inflict harm on my character (in violation of the law and Constitution) Yet you trust me with the minds of your children.

Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi