WHILE PERFORMING OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2004 I WAS INJURIED BY A RPG BLAST IT KNOCKED ME OUT OF MY HUMM V AN UNARMORED HUMM V

I WAS DEAD FOR 3 MINUTES BEFORE THE MEDIC BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE , I THAN WAS TOLD MY INJURIES WHERE NOT BAD ENOUGH TO SEND ME HOME SO I STAYED IN THE FIELD AT FOB SALERNO

 

IT WAS ABOUT 3 MONTHS LATER WHEN MY KIDNEY'S STARTED TO BLEED, WHEN THEY SAID I SHOULD BE SENT TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL IN  WASHINGTON ,MY FIRST STOP WAS GERMANY WHERE I WAS MET BY TWO CONGRESSMAN, THEY ASKED WHERE IN IRAQ WAS I AT, AND I SAID I WAS IN AFGHANISTAN THEY BOTH SAID WE DID NOT KNOW?? WE WERE IN AFGHANISTAN FIGHTING.

 

A SPEACIL FORCE SERGANT AND MYSELF LAYED AND WATCHED THE CONGRESSMAN GIVE MONEY, GIFTS, CLOTHES, TO THOSE SOLDIER'LATER THEY GAVE ME 200 DOLLARS AND SOME CLOTHES BUT NOTHING LIKE THOSE FROM IRAQ THIS REALLY HURT ME I WAS ALSO FIGHTING FOR MY COUNTRY

 

I WAS FLOWN TO WASHINGON AND WAS TOLD I WOULD GET A PURPLE HEART THEY GAVE ME THE PAPER WORK I SIGNED IT AND WAS GIVEN  A SMALL PURPLE HEART TO PUT ON MY BDU'S

 

I WAS FLOWN TO COLORADO SPRINGS WHERE I GOT THE HELL BEAT OUT OF ME  BY AIR FORCE MPS THEY HIT ME WITH NIGHT STICKES THEY HIT MY HANDS SO HARD I COULD NOT TELL WHAT MY HANDS WHERE ANYMORE ALL BECAUSE I WAS HURTING AND WANTED OFF THE PLANE BEING TIED DOWN ON THAT PLANE WAS GETTING TO ME AND I REALLY DONT REMEMBER ALL OF WHAT HAPPENED I WAS SO OUT OF IT AND IN SO MUCH PAIN

 

I WAS TIED DOWN IN A BED , I ASKED WHY THEY WERE DOING THIS TO ME AND A OFFICER SAID IT WAS BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO GO TO IRAQ ,I SAID WHAT I JUST CAME BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN AND WHEN HE FINELY LOOKED AT MY RECORDS HE SAID OH SORRY, THEY THEN STARTED ME BACK ON MORPHINE AGAIN FOR THE PAIN IN MY KIDNEYS AND BACK AND I ALSO HURT MY KNEE MY WIFE AND KIDS CAME AND GOT ME FROM THE HELL HOLE AND I WENT TO FT SILL OK ,WHERE MY HELL STARTED AGAIN FOR ANOTHER YEAR I WAS MADE TO DO PT EVERYDAY HURTING OR NOT I ALSO WAS ALMOST ARRESTED BY CID AT FT SILL BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID I MIGHT TELL SOMEONE ALL THE TIME I WAS DOWN RANGE IN PAIN AND HURT I WAS GIVEN PAIN KILLERS LIKE SHOTS OF MOPHINE AND PERCOET AND I DID NOT COMPLAIN NOT ONCE I STILL WENT OUT ON MISSION'S AND NEVER TURNED ONE MISSION DOWN THATS HOW MUCH I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND WOULD FIGHT FOR HER STILL TODAY