Captain Kevin Drue Donnelly By
Monette Benoit, Kevin’s Sister Copyright
2006 “Who,
What When, Where, How, Why,” Part
Two “Vaccine-A”
And “When
the Tombstone is Inaccurate, You
Have to Stand and Make Hard Choices.” A year ago
tonight, the fifth anniversary of my youngest brother’s death, my
family
traveled to the Texas coast with my eldest brother and family. Friday, August
5th, near 9:00 p.m., we walked onto a long pier, single file. A square wooden
dock was attached to the end of this narrow, old pier. Far out over
the gulf water, two benches were bolted into the dock. These men and
women were serious about their fishing. Few looked up
from their task at hand as we walked, peering over
their shoulders into their bait pails and buckets. – just enough to
keep south Texas air moving from the cool gulf water.
The evening sky
was crystal; stars sparkled brightly. As James and I
walked single file, he ahead of me, I shared
details about the posting of Kevin’s Fifth Year Tribute, our youngest
(baby) brother. I gasped, reached
out for James. “What do you
mean?” I asked. “How
could you say that?” James, 6 foot
2 inches, stood perfectly still, and replied, “Compared to
what he was living with in the home with that wife, Tina, those
stepchildren, and
Michelle -- that hell, and that illness, Kevin is in a
better place now.” I looked away
into the dark water; silently we continued our walk toward the end of
the
pier. I was haunted
by his words and again wondered how we had traveled this winding road
since December
23, 1997, Kevin’s first Hepatitis C diagnosis, which led to his death
August 5th,
2000. The winding
road became entangled immediately after Kevin’s death, as inaccurate
facts attempted to become fact; Kevin’s
mammoth research never was returned to the Hep C community, nor were
two items Kevin’s parents requested ––
just as Kevin predicted. “Open
your eyes and forget the day, and
you’ll see things in a different
way. Don’t
stop thinking about
tomorrow. It will
soon be here. It will be here
better than before. Yesterday’s gone. Yesterday’s
gone.” Fleetwood Mac As James and I
sat on the wood benches, steady wind blowing, I was silent, deep in
thought. Tenderly, slowly,
James reached for my left hand. Adults and
children gathered around us on the pier, which extended far over the
rocks and water. We held hands,
joined by a huge moment; words were
not necessary. “Look
over yonder and what do you see? Love,
love is the answer and that’s all
right. So
don’t you give up now so easy to
find. Just
look to your soul and open your
mind.” Tommy James and The Shondells When it was
time to leave, James’ sons, of course, resisted departure.
I stood and calmly
said, “I want a sign
from Kevin. I know this is
a lot to ask, but I want a sign. This is his
fifth anniversary – this one hurts.” My nephews,
solemnly nodded, arms folded, planting their feet on the dock. Within
seconds, someone said, “Look, two dolphins in the water. LOOK!” We looked out
into the dark. Under the
starlit night, two dolphins were playfully swimming side by side,
gliding
through the water, jumping into the air. My nephews always
speak about their Uncle Kevin and immediately asked, “Was that the sign? Can we have
another?” James and I, raised
on rich Irish lore with magical signs and bumps in the night, looked to
each
other; together we blinked
in silent communication and smiled. “When
you’re feeling low and the fish
won’t bite You
need a little bit of soul to put
you right. You
gotta make like you want to kneel
and pray And then a little bit of soul will come
your way.” The Ramones I said a quick
prayer, stood from my seated position on the bench. Then I heard
the boys and James gasp. “LOOOOK!
A huge shooting star - right over there!!” When I turned
180 degrees, the star was gone. The boys and
James stood, right arms raised high into the air, expressions of
surprise and
delight displayed on their smiling faces. I looked at my
family, sighed, head down, and said, “That’s all I needed.” Though I never
saw that shooting star, a year later, the kids still
speak about how huge the shooting star was, how bright it
was, and how, once
we asked Uncle Kevin for a sign, quote, “IT JUST
APPEARED!” The adults and
children began our single-file walk back down the pier and I hugged
James. James chuckled,
the man of few words, and said, “Yeah, Kevin
was always the determined one! He always knew
how to make an entrance. That ‘was’
Kevin. I’m sure that was
a sign from Kevin!” “Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.” Albert
Einstein As I prepare
this Sixth Tribute, head bowed, my dad, a veteran, diagnosed with
Hepatitis C
in 2003 from blood transfusions, is finishing 40 cancer radiation
treatments. This is a
return of the cancer which prevented Kevin’s father from attending his
youngest
son Kevin Drue Donnelly’s funeral. Though adults
and teens at Dalton’s Funeral Parlor August 8th, 2000
continued to
ask me, “Why are your parents really
not here …,” I stood tall,
alone, repeating, “Dad had advanced cancer surgery.”
Of all Emmett’s
children, Kevin was most like the father.
Their gusto
for life, their determination and energy is/was true to the core. A dear friend
wrote: “Your dad and Kevin sound like a
Hummer …a tank that can handle whatever comes its way!!” Dad, now
finishing 40 treatments, insisted on driving himself to and from each
treatment
for eight weeks of radiation treatment.
Emmett insisted,
his words, quote, “staying in motion.” Emmett would
say every day, “I have to keep moving. Once stopped,
it is more difficult to start moving. I have to keep moving.” Each day,
after therapy, Emmett would go to a bookstore, to a library, to a
grocery store
– even if for a few minutes; then he
drove home to rest. Each day,
Emmett made a trip ‘somewhere’ – focused on the prize at the end of the
road ––
“more motion, more of life; Each day
Emmett has said, “I’m not ready to die, damn it.” On the last
day of radiation, Emmett is scheduled to receive a diploma for having
been so
strong. We, his
family, are teasing him the diploma will most likely be an invoice. Emmett throws
his hands into the air and says, “I don’t care;
I just have to keep moving.” “The
future depends on what we do in
the present.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Kevin also
believed, “You have to keep moving.” Until his
death, Captain Kevin Drue Donnelly was advocating, working to assist
others
with education and information about Hepatitis C, Hep C side effects,
depression, working with veterans and their family how to access
accurate
information, then how to utilize the best, concise resources. “Big
boys don’t cry Hey,
I’m not ashamed to say a tear is
in my eye Because another tear will take its
place before I die.” Extreme Hours before
Kevin was escorted out of his residence by two sheriffs, court ordered
at
request of Justine Velocchi Donnelly, Kevin Donnelly, terribly ill in
the final
stages of Hep C, was assisting veterans around the world, assisting
with preparations
to open an online support coalition for veterans, Hep C inmates with
Phyllis
Beck and Dr. Ben Cecil, now located www.hcvinprison.org And Kevin was
preparing to speak about veterans and Hep C on a military radio show
the next
morning. “It is
easier to build a foundation of
knowledge and prevention than it
is to rebuild a life destroyed
by ignorance.” Thelma
King Thiel, Chair, CEO, HFI,
Hepatitis Foundation International (friend to Kevin until his death) http://www.HepatitisFoundation.org This last year
has been filled with remarkable events – though, non-dramatic events we
pray
for, have yet to arrive in our personal and family Hep-C related world. Strangers
continue to reach out from the past to share about Kevin, his world,
his
research, his advocacy. The good
news: Thousands are
being educated; thousands are being diagnosed with HCV and HIV. An accurate
diagnosis is good news as individuals may then make life decisions
on how
to live with HCV. Kevin
predicted that HCV, Hep C, would piggyback the HIV virus. Sadly, it is. “Brother,
brother, brother, there’s far
too many of you dying. You
know we’ve got to find a way What’s
Going on, What’s Going on …”
Marvin Gaye As numbers
continue to grow, people need research and access to Hepatitis C
information in
the trench, in the proper facilities, within each home and kitchen. “It’s
the same old song but
with a different meaning since
you been gone.” Four Tops In prior
postings: I have
included narratives, documented with facts on what it was like to live
in
Kevin’s shoes, specifically after his Hep C diagnosis;
I have
included facts about military vaccinations, pneumatic jet needles used
on
multiple persons, the specific adenovirus, which appeared on Kevin’s
altered military
medical records. I have
included yearly Tributes to Kevin with
continued-to-be-requested events. People
continue to request a movie with additional details on what ‘really’
happened
when Kevin’s phone lines were tapped, his medical research was removed,
his research
were ripped into shreds, then left on the kitchen counter. People
continue to request a movie with additional details on what ‘really’
happened when
Kevin’s personal world was tormented within his residence for the last
two
years of his life; People
continue to request a move with additional details on what really
happened
among the failure of people around Kevin – to include, what really
happened
with the failure of Kevin to change his own path. “Doctor,
doctor, what’s going on? Can you
tell me what’s going on? Everything
keeps going, going wrong. And I
keep looking for a sign. I keep
getting closer, closer to the
other side. I think
I’m running out of time,
running out of time. Am I
supposed to feel, am I having
doubts? Life is
not always showing the truth
and what is really real. See I’m
living all alone, playing
solitaire, But
it’s kinda hard. I don’t wanna drown. “I used
to feel so free, but now my
back’s against the wall. Doctor,
doctor, what’s going on? Can you tell me what’s going on?” Bizzy
Bone Kevin did not
change his path after his initial diagnosis.
Kevin truly
believed his destiny had been laid out once he was told “you have two
years to
live, and you’re not a candidate for a liver transplant Merry
Christmas.” (Actual words
used by a physician December 23, 1997). I documented
how Kevin did seek medical help and how Dr. Melissa Palmer, a person
claiming
to be a Hep C specialist, performed a biopsy on Kevin and the
ramifications of
Palmer’s actions. In earlier
postings, I published the letter Kevin Donnelly wrote to the state
certifying
board in New York documenting facts of Dr. Melissa Palmer and Kevin
Drue
Donnelly’s mistreatment. When Kevin
received a letter from the military stating “you must have acquired the
Hepatitis C virus from homosexual activities or from drug use,” this
letter ---
combined with words and actions of doctors --- altered Kevin’s path
forever. As Kevin
researched how he acquired Hepatitis C, he learned about military
vaccinations,
military and pharmaceutical experiments, soldiers who then became
medical cases,
which were tracked, followed. I continue to
share as Kevin asked me. I continue to
backup my work, to ensure others have facts. I continue to
look over my shoulder. “The
time to hesitate is through, there’s no time to wallow in the mire.”
The Doors < Yet I am
committed to the responsibility to having this discussion. This
responsibility creates conversations about Hepatitis C and its multiple
side
effects and depression; Responsibility
includes conversations about families, about treatment; Responsibility
includes conversations about choices and lack of choices, Responsibility
includes conversations about misinformation and conversations about
inaccurate
information. When we
transform the message of diseases and people’s actions; When we
transform the message of their greed, their poor choices; When we transform
the message of lack of understanding and lack of compassion – Then we then
change conversations. Changing conversations
then becomes a venue: A path for
people who do not become victims, A path for
people who become informed and empowered patients. I view the
world from a different camera, I view the
world from a different lens once I learned my brother did not have
anyone eat a
meal within his residence during the last two years. Kevin slept
with a lock on his office door because teens and adults wanted Kevin to
sell
his research, sell his story, “The Panama Story.” Had Kevin sold
his research or “The Panama Story” those around Kevin might
have changed –– But one thing
we do know: Kevin’s world would have
changed. Kevin was offered
money by institutions to endorse their products. Kevin was offered
a free liver transplant, without the long wait, if Kevin would in turn
–– But Kevin took
the path of most resistance insisting
that if he, Kevin, sold his work, he would not be taken seriously. Kevin believed
that if he profited from the blood of others – Hep C blood – the road
for
others would be made worse. Facts prove
Kevin’s road was worsened by his choice never to profit from: his
medical
research; his contacts with individuals in the press, CDC, WHO, NIH,
White
House, international organizations, scientists, military specialists,
anonymous
individuals who phoned his residence in the wee hours of the night to
speak
only on the condition of anonymity; Kevin chose personally
not to profit from his military informants, political contacts,
journalists and
newsmakers. All the networks
and people Kevin worked with, nurtured and worked to weave together –– –– All these,
in Kevin Drue Donnelly’s opinion, would have disconnected further,
fragmented
further, spilling away
from the core, away from a
possible connection – accurate facts – about a disease, accurate facts
about a
virus now affecting millions of veterans, people, children. “Picket
lines and picket signs, Don’t
punish me with brutality Talk to
me, so you can see Oh, what’s
going on? What’s going on? Yeah, what’s going on?” Marvin Gaye Sadly, Kevin
Drue Donnelly did not do the predictable.
He did not
take the path traveled more frequently. I write each
year and continue to meet with those who honestly document. When I hear
how others have learned from one family, Kevin’s family, and how each
day, we
wonder ‘what if’ –– then Kevin’s legacy and path is eased, one step,
one step,
one step. Those regrets
and inaccuracies may be badges to some, but to us, they are hard-earned
scars. We have a
saying now in our family: “When the
tombstone is inaccurate, you have to stand and make
hard choices. The choices
won’t be easy choices, but they will change your world because you have
to take
a stand.” This saying
was created when we learned that the tombstone of Captain Kevin Drue
Donnelly was
initially given a tombstone at Calverton National Cemetery for Second
Lieutenant, August 9th 2000. I still
remember standing over the empty hole in the ground, Kevin’s widow
and their family quickly departed to attend a luncheon – before his
casket was
rolled off the portable stand under the little green tent with small
gold
velvet chairs. “On the
first part of the journey, I
was looking at all the lights, there
were plants and birds and rocks
and things the
heat was hot and the ground was dry
but the air was full of sound.” America I went to
Calverton’s main office at the recommendation of the representative
from the
Dalton Funeral Home. There, I stood
in line and asked where my brother’s casket was going. The employees took
me behind a partitioned wall, gave me a glass of water, directed me to
a chair
to rest, then handed me a map, marking ‘x’ where Kevin’s casket would
have been
delivered. When I found
the spot where Kevin’s casket was to have been placed, the hole in
the ground was empty, surrounded by four walls of white-beige concrete. The number of
his ‘hole in the ground’ was written in large letters with lime green
chalk on
a concrete wall, where the head of the casket would rest. I stood, heart
broken, and waited for Kevin’s casket. Later, when union
gravediggers arrived from their lunch break, they buried my brother
“with
respect”. Strangers
placed Kevin’s casket into the ground. Many did not
speak English; each wore a dark blue T-shirt, skin thickened from hot
sun. The
supervisor, at my request, stood at the head of now-filled hole, fists
on his
hips, head down. I, his sister,
had been adamant that this soldier would be buried “with respect.” “When
you were young and your heart’s
an open book, you
want to give it a try to live and
let live. You
know you did, but in this ever
changing world in which we live makes
you give in and cry. Say
live and let die. What does it
matter to you? When you got a job to do, you got to do
it well.” Paul McCartney Claverton
cemetery employees, in unison, shoveled dirt into the hole covering his
casket. “And
it’s so real, so real, so real,
can you dig it? The sun
beaming down between the leaves And the
birds darting in and out of the
trees. Everything
is so clear you can see it Everything
is so real you can feel it. I can dig it. He can dig it. Can you
dig it, baby?” Friends of Distinction This memory from
Kevin’s funeral, as others, are frozen in time. They immediately
flashback on a specific sound or breeze. The sound of
ropes banging on a flagpole, immediately flashes me back to driving
into
Calverton’s cemetery. Their entrance
is lined with tall flags, each raised high, heavy ropes banging the
metal poles
when the wind blows. When I hear
this sound, I immediately shudder, turn around, and sure enough a
flagpole is
nearby, rope banging against a metal pole. “Oh,
I’ve seen fire, and I’ve seen
rain. I seen
sunny days that I thought would
never end. I seen
lonely times when I could not
find a friend. But I
always thought that I’d see you
again.” James Taylor As I walked
away, I thanked the gravediggers –– never thinking to ask the rank and
information that would arrive on Kevin’s tombstone. The cemetery
staff and funeral parlor employees each confirmed that paperwork filled
out by
his second wife, a veteran and a nurse, Justine Velocchi Lomonte
Donnelly, who
filed for divorce prior to Kevin’s death, listed Kevin as second
lieutenant. My nephews
keep asking, “Why did that
happen? How could
someone be so mean to granddad and grandma?” I pause each
time and answer, simple, direct answers to the children: “When people
are mad, people make bad choices.” The children
still reply, “Oh, yeah, like the bully on the school bus …” “We
don’t need to escalate … You
know we’ve got to find a way To
bring some loving here today. What’s
Going On?” Marvin Gaye I listen as the
next generation – which now includes a nephew serving in the military –
listens
to facts, forming own conclusions, as they age. And they
continue to ask at the oddest moments about their Uncle Kevin. When asked, I
show facts and results of Uncle Kevin’s work, to include gifts Kevin
made,
pictures of Kevin at their young ages from photo albums our dad
compiled, now
displayed in each of our homes. Captain Kevin
Drue Donnelly now has an accurate tombstone, a second tombstone was
placed over
his coffin, at taxpayer’s expense. Even the
younger generation now says, “When the
tombstone is inaccurate, you have to stand up and ––” Children now
asking about Uncle Kevin want to know why their grandparents were told,
within
12 hours of Kevin’s death that Kevin “was waiting for others and there
could
have been a triple homicide as there was a spare bullet on the dresser.” This is how
each relative of Kevin received news of his death, Kevin’s parents, his
siblings, Kevin’s family. We each
received a call from a stepchild –– I received my
call August 5th, 2000 from Rosanna. “There
is freedom within, There
is freedom without … There’s
a battle ahead. Many
battles are lost, But
you’ll never see the end of the
road … Hey
now, hey now, don’t dream it’s
over. Hey
now, hey now, when the world comes
in, They
come to build a wall between us. We know they won’t win. Don’t ever
let them win.” Crowded House Facts and
conversations with law enforcement professionals who accurately
documented the
Lindenhurst, New York residence the morning of August 5th,
2000,
documented these statements shared with Kevin’s parents, Kevin’s
siblings and
Kevin’s family were entirely false and completely inaccurate. Again, the
younger generation asks, “How could
someone have been so cruel, and why would they lie?” We listen to
the questions, answer the questions with facts and explain that all
adults do
not do this (another question frequently asked). “When
the tombstone is inaccurate, you
have to stand and make hard
choices.” August 2006,
as Kevin’s father, finishing his cancer radiation treatments, would
say, “You
have to keep moving forward.” We, as you,
have moved forward, and as a result of Kevin’s research, his
predictions, the
inaccuracies of residents in the home, coupled with the virus
vaccinations of
military – positive results continue to unravel from Kevin’s work, from
your
work. We now use the
‘inaccurate tombstone’ as a life-marking event. “In
three words I can sum up everything
I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” Robert Frost (1974-1963) “Come
on pretty baby, put your little
hand in mine, Things
are shaking on the dance floor. Everybody’s
feeling fine. Don’t
waste another minute. Step into
the light, Come on and dance with me tonight.”
Wonders Kevin was a
researcher who reluctantly came to this path, assisting others. (He also loved to dance.) He wrote press
releases, was interviewed by U.S. News
& World Report, Newsday, authored articles for multiple
professional Journals. Kevin grew
into the spokesperson and advocate when he was alone, seeking answers
and
receiving none. “By all
means, marry. If you
get a good wife, you'll become
happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a
philosopher.” Socrates I have a deep respect
and understanding of Anderson Cooper’s message in his book Dispatches
From The Edge: A
Memoir of War, Disasters and Survival. “Sometimes
[change] happens overnight. All it takes
is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of
wind. Wake up and your life is perched on
a
precipice; fall asleep, and it swallows you whole. None of us
likes to believe our lives are so precarious.” I also wanted
to survive, and I thought I could learn from the others who had. War seemed
like my only option.” I salute
Anderson Cooper for sharing so honestly.
Anderson’s
daily mantra, “Hold them accountable,” is sharp, accurate and
ensures
Anderson’s mission and his quest is not taken lightly. After I posted
the Fifth Tribute to Captain Kevin Drue Donnelly, August 5, 2005, I
received a
book in the mail. Inside the
package was a note: “You will find
this interesting. I see your brother’s
fingerprints and his work here. Read this book
and share it with others. YOU MUST.” The package
contained: Vaccine –A, The Covert
Experiment That’s Killing Our Soldier and Why GI’s Are Only the First
Victims
by Gary Matsumoto. ISBN
0-465-04400-X. Copyright 2004 by Gary
Matsumoto Information
may be obtained by visiting www.Vaccine-A.com
Author Gary
Matsumoto “has reported from 32 countries, five continents, two wars
…He’s been
the London Bureau Correspondent for NBC Radio News; a National
Correspondent
for NBC’s Weekend Today Show and
Senior Correspondent for Fox New Channel.” A ‘media
coverage’ page, which may be accessed www.vaccine-a.com/media.html “This book
explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon’s privy. Read it and
weep; better yet, get mad,” wrote Col. David H. Hackworth, U.S. Army,
retired,
America’s most decorated living soldier, Author of About
Face and Steel My
Soldiers’ Hearts. There’s also a
message board where veterans and many have posted:
www.vaccine-a.com/forum.html I know if my
brother, advocate, researcher, friend to thousands were alive, Kevin
Donnelly
would have read and posted on these issues. “Defer
no time, delays have dangerous
ends.” William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Q. Who is at
risk for Hepatitis C (a virus that now with strains to Hep G)? A. Hemophiliacs,
veterans, recipients of blood transfusions, recipients of pneumatic
needle
injectors (used in military), recipients of multiple injections,
prisoners,
family members, health-care workers, hospital employees – people who
work
around blood – to include tattoos, manicures, first-rescue teams,
dental
patients. LeighAnn
Vogel, www.oocities.org/hepvet/HCV1.html Veterans
Patient and Support Advocate writes: “Hepatitis C
Virus is the leading cause of Liver Transplantation in the U.S. today. According to the CDC, 1.8 percent of the
U.S. population is infected with HCV.
This comes to 4.9 million American.” I understand
these numbers do not include people serving in the military, prisoners
or
homeless. Kevin used to
say that the HCV virus would make HIV look like a ‘sneeze’ due to lack
of
accurate information, documentation and (mis)treatments.
I still
shudder when I remember his words. Kevin
organized facts and data which supported the fact that the Hepatitis C
he
acquired was ‘gifted’ via military vaccinations. Kevin
organized dates, facts and data with others from the same locations and
discovered data that narrowed his focus. “If
everyone is thinking alike, then
somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton (1885-1945) Kevin diligently
researched and supplied information about the origins of Hepatitis C,
relating
back to a bad 1942 Yellow Fever serum. Kevin then
wrote “The Panama Story” weaving facts with fiction to assist others. His free story,
which reads like a John Grisham novel, is posted: www.oocities.org/hepvet/PanamaTitle.html “What
they do? They
smile in your face, All the
time they want to take your
place, the back stabbers. Smiling
faces sometimes tell lies. I
keep getting all these visits. They
come to my house again and again
and again. I wish
they’d take some of these knives
out of my back. Smiling faces – they smile in your
face.” The O’Jays’ Vaccine-A includes data and facts
Kevin Drue
Donnelly documented prior to his death August 5th, 2000. This book discusses
adenovirus, a word Kevin, a medic and medical researcher, knew little –
to zip–
about. This book
discusses Hepatitis and experimenting on military soldiers --without
consent. And this book Vaccine-A
discusses Yellow Fever and bad
serum from 1942. The day I
received the hardcover book in the mail, it was as
though my youngest brother Kevin tapped my shoulder -- saying, “See ???
I told you – I told you –– in five years
time …” “The time is always right to do what is
right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Kevin did
predict the number, five years. Kevin shared
other predictions. Far too many
have already become fulfilled, beginning the moment the police arrived
at his
house when his deceased body was found within the residence and the
very first
inaccuracies floated into the universe by Kevin’s widow, by teens and
men who
picked up boxes of research –– Kevin’s cats
were taken to be put-down the first day the shelter was open for
business –– Kevin shared
these predictions with others – and even predicted the size of floral
arrangements at his funeral, with exact wording on floral sashes, from
his
widow and stepchildren. Kevin missed
the prediction which became fact when not one of the floral
arrangements from
Kevin’s parents and Kevin’s siblings were placed near Kevin’s casket or
the
front of the room. That one,
Kevin missed, but it happened, folks.
It did. One can not
make up the facts that were orchestrated so quickly –– Just as Kevin predicted
to my husband and to me, to people he knew –– and as a backup, Kevin
shared his
predictions with veterans, people he never met –– to ensure his words,
his work
and his efforts would never be forgotten. Where others
may have changed course or sold their work, Kevin took the
path of most resistance, hunkered in, continuing to help veterans,
mothers of
Hep C patients and to expand his work,
his research. "It does not matter how
slowly you
go, so long as you do not stop." Confucius (551-479 BC) Prior to
sharing additional facts this year and to continue to share what others
have in
their possession, per Kevin’s request: You will see multiple
stories to include illness, treatment (or lack thereof), military
assistance
(or lack thereof), side effects of illness and depression, family
support (or
lack thereof), professionals who claim to know the answers to your
illness and
your treatment (or lack thereof). “When
the tombstone is inaccurate, you
have to stand and make hard
choices.” Information
may be referenced from direct links below. Bookmark
these links,
then go
back and read them. First Year
Tribute: “He Was A
Brother, A Vet, and He Died Before His Time” Sequel to Kevin Drue
Donnelly’s
"The Panama Story,"
August 4, 2001, By
Kevin’s Sister, Monette Benoit http://www.oocities.org/hepvet/Kevin1yr.html Second
Year Tribute:
“Still
Listening, Still Waiting For The Truth, August 4, 2002” By Kevin’s
Sister,
Monette Benoit http://www.oocities.org/hepvet/Still2002.html Third Year Tribute: “Finally, A Eulogy for
Captain Kevin Drue
Donnelly in http://www.oocities.org/hepvet/KDDMem2003.html Fourth Year
Tribute and Memorial: Captain Kevin
Drue Donnelly, August 4th, 2004,
By
Kevin’s Sister http://www.oocities.org/hepvet/Kevin04.html Fifth Year Tribute: "Who, What, When, Where,
How, Why, Part
One” By Kevin=s
Sister, Monette Benoit http://www.oocities.org/hepvet/Kevin5thYrTrib.html "Why
not go out on a limb? Isn't
that where the fruit is?” Frank Scully (1892-1964) American
newspaper columnist Gary
Matsumoto’s book Vaccine-A shares
facts: “In 1939, a
Japanese physician named Ryoichi Naito aroused suspicion when he showed
up
announced at New York’s Rockefeller Institute seeking samples of yellow
fever
vaccine –– “Three years
later, American was at war with Japan. Fearing a
possible biological warfare attack with yellow fever, the Army ordered
the
vaccination of U.S. troops in 1942 with an experimental yellow fever
vaccine. … “No soldier
ever got yellow fever from a biological weapon, but many got hepatitis
from the
yellow fever vaccine. It caused the
largest epidemic of physician-induced viral hepatitis in recorded
history. Of the 141
yellow fever vaccine lots supplied to the Army, seven were made with
human sera
contaminated with the hepatitis B virus.
“Tests
indicated that up to 330,000 U.S. military personnel in the Western
Defense
Command (which included Army bases in six western states and Hawaii)
were
injected with contaminated vaccine during basic training; some 51,000
American
troopers were hospitalized with jaundice.
“In World War
II, the average strength of a U.S. Army infantry division was around
14,250
men. Going by this
figure, the Army lost nearly four whole divisions to a badly made
vaccine.” Source: Vaccine-A “One
way or another, I’m gonna find ya,
I’m
gonna get ya, get ya, get ya. One way
or another, I’m gonna lose ya, I’m gonna give ya the slip.” Pat
Benatar Kevin Drue
Donnelly used the FOIA, Freedom Of Information Act, to document the bad
Yellow
Fever serum from 1942, which was given to soldiers.
Kevin
researched, documented how the bad serum mutated, how soldiers were
vaccinated
– then soldiers and their medical symptoms and treatments (or lack
thereof)
were followed. “Through
the mirror of my mind, time
and after time, I see
reflections of the way life used
to be Trapped
in world that’s a distorted
reality Through
the hollow of my tears, I see a dream that’s lost.” Diana Ross Vaccine-A shares:
“For over thirty years, at the recommendation of the AFEB’s
Commission on Influenza and under contract to the U.S. Army Research
and
Development Command, doctors from medical schools around the country
injected
experimental influenza and adenovirus vaccines into U.S. military
personnel
that sometimes included oil additives.”
When Kevin
Donnelly was first diagnosed late 1997, he requested a copy of his
military
medical records in 1998. Kevin, who was
told by military superiors to “save everything, including your toilet
paper if
you can” (a common military quote), compared his original army medical
records
with the records he received. “If you
fall, I will catch you, time
after time. After
my picture fades and my darkness
turns to grey … The
drum beats out of time, If
you’re lost, and you look, I will find you, time after time.”
Cindy Lauper Kevin, a medic
and science scholar, discovered the word adenovirus
handwritten within altered military medical records bearing his name. Kevin spent
much time chasing the origins of adenovirus vaccinations and possible
reasons
for altering his original military medical records. “Brother,
brother, brother’s there’s
far too many of you dying. What’s going on?” Marvin Gaye Gary Matsumoto
discusses the Tuskegee Study when U.S. Public Health Services, PHS,
conducted a
syphilis experiment on 399 Airmen, all African American beginning 1932
to 1972.
The Tuskegee
Study was first published in the Washington
Star, July 25, 1972 by Jean Heller, Associated Press after
interviewing
Peter Buxtun, a PHS employee, venereal disease interviewer. Within Vaccine-A,
Matsumoto writes about the
“infamous hepatitis experiment at Willowbrook State School on New
York’s Staten
Island. Between 1956
and 1972, New York University Professor Dr. Saul Krugman injected
hepatitis
into severely retarded children at Willowbrook in order to study the
progression of the disease. …
(Krugman was “a distinguished pediatrician
and member of the Armed Forced Epidemiological Board, AFEB, … member of
the
advisory panel for the WHO, World Health Organization.”) Krugman
“sought and received the express approval of the Armed Forces
Epidemiological
Board, which funded the study.” Matsumoto
dates military experiments on soldiers back to General George
Washington in
1775 and smallpox. “To halt the
epidemic and the desertions, the Northern Army resorted to
‘variolation’. Doctors cut
incisions into a healthy person’s arm and then deposited in the wound
pus from
an active smallpox sore. This gave the
patient a case of smallpox … The following
year, (General Horatio) Gates’s army, now free of smallpox, defeated
the
British at the Battle of Saratoga. Seeing this
result, Washington persuaded the Continental Congress to approve
variolation
for all new recruits. It would be
another twenty years before Britain’s Edward Jenner developed the
world’s first
smallpox vaccine.” “George
Washington resorted to an unproven medical procedure to help him
prosecute a
war. The Army used
an experimental vaccine to defend against a possible biological warfare
attack
in World War II. “To protect
troops, the Army has been doing that ever since, regularly using
experimental
flu and adenovirus vaccines to maintain operational readiness and to
prevent an
outbreak of killer flu like the one in 1918 that left more than twenty
million
dead.” “ … The danger
is when the wartime mentality takes hold of researchers conducting
experiments
on military personnel.” “Soldiers,
sailors, airmen and marines provide a ‘stable, long-term permanent
study
group,” to borrow Albert Sibin’s phrase – more so than civilian
volunteers who
may quit a study at any time, pack their bags and move, never to be
heard from
again. Military
personnel can’t do that. They are on a
short leash. They also
can’t refuse any medical treatment that has been ordered by their
superiors. New recruits
must accept all immunizations, no questions asked, or face court
martial. For these and
a variety of other reasons, military personnel make an ideal population
for
medical testing. Since Tuskegge
and Willowbrook they have been the only game in town.” “ …Moreover,
in the case of vaccine development there was a need for government
intervention. Because of low
profit margins and high risk of product liability lawsuits, big
pharmaceutical
companies couldn’t get out of the vaccine business fast enough. The public
health establishment had to do something before vaccine manufacturing
in the
United States disappeared altogether. “By forming
strategic partnerships in the 1980s with big pharmaceutical companies
and then
running clinical trials with experimental vaccines on U.S. troopers,
the
military was serving a clear public interest. “Large-scale
vaccine trials on military personnel could entice pharmaceutical
companies to
keep making vaccines by reducing their exposure to litigation and
thereby
improve their bottom lines. “… Thus, if a
service member gets hurt by medical malpractice, or by the use of an
investigational drug or vaccine, no one is accountable.
The Department
of Defense indemnifies companies manufacturing its vaccines, and DOD
cannot be
sued for damages due to negligence.
Military doctors don’t carry medical malpractice insurance
because they
don’t have to.” "It is
not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to
change." Charles Darwin “ … The
military gets a special loophole of the FDA, Food and Drug
Administration. In 1974, the
same year the government passed legislation to allegedly impose strict
guidelines
on human experiments, the FDA also drafted a special agreement that
enabled the
Department of Defense to conduct its experiments secretly. “When
necessary for ‘national security,’ a Memorandum of Understanding
between the
FDA and the Department of Defense permits the military to administer
investigational drugs to its personnel without informed consent, and
without
having to disclose this decision to the public, by classifying the
trial. “Whether a
clinical trial is classified or not is solely at the Pentagon’s
discretion. This is a loophole bigger
than a barn door; it is, in practice, wider than an eight-lane
Interstate.” Source: Vaccine-A,
Gary Matsumoto “Get
back to where you once belong, get
back Joe-Joe Go home. Your momma’s waiting for you. Get back to where you once belong.”
Country Joe McDonald Yes, folks,
Kevin worked in the small room within his residence the last two years
of his
life researching, advocating, documenting facts similar to Gary
Matsumoto, if
not accurately the same. Gary Matsumoto
refined the bow, steadied the arrow and nailed the ‘fly to the wall’
with fact
after fact, date after date, quote after quote, source after source. One venue of
facts Kevin researched was the involvement of medicine, viruses,
population counting
and the Rockefeller Foundation. As my brother
shared the twisting facts, I was, as others, initially skeptical. I remember
listening to his animated voice as he shared facts. I remember
frowning, sighing as a sister might –– initially. But Kevin did
have federal vans driving by his home with the U.S. seal displayed on
its car
doors. He did have
telephone lines tapped. Neighbors
verified this event, time and again. “Every
step you take, I’ll be watching
you. Every
move you make, every file you make, Every
smile you fake, every claim you
stake, I’ll be watching you.” The Police,
Sting The last
two-and-a-half years of Kevin’s life were battled by residents within
the
residence, by people who stole his research out of his office in his
residence. People phoned
Kevin, deep into the night, to share “you’re getting closer, keep
going” –
people gave Kevin facts and documents, self-described actual
whistle-blowers –– The multiple
battles circling around Kevin were huge –– Kevin’s
private world and his advocacy and research –– those battles were huge,
but
they were tiny compared to the ravages of the Hepatitis C virus within
his
body. “You
really got me now Yeah,
you really got me now Oh, you
really got me now You got
me so I can’t sleep at night. You really got me. You really got
me. Oh, no …” The Kinks Kevin tracked buddies
from the military, his troop,
and learned that overwhelmingly, many had died, were dying or had
recently been
diagnosed with Hep C. “If I
could turn back time – Kevin was able
to track and document the fact that one evening he and all troop
soldiers were
awakened, called to the roadside, lined up single file. They were, in
fact, told they were being given an experimental shot for “non-Hep B”. “I see
reflections of the way life used
to be … Through
the hollow of my tears, I see a
dream that’s lost … All my
faith and trust right before my
eyes … My
world has turned to dust … Reflections
of the way life used to be.” Diana Ross Kevin’s one
action that he could never forgive himself for was not what I’ve
documented
thus far and shared here. Kevin Drue
Donnelly could never forgive himself for having volunteered to be one
of the
first to receive the ‘non-Hep B’ vaccine, so this weary soldier, this
grunt, could
get a pass for “time off”. “Take
me home to the place I belong …
take me home, country roads. Down
the road, I have a feeling I should
have been home yesterday.” John Denver A hospital
ward in Germany was cleared in advance to the troop’s arrival. Kevin documented this fact with people who
remembered prepping the hospital ward for a troop, which, they were
informed,
would arrive with a virus. Kevin’s best
memory of the hospital stay was two-fold:
He was not in
sleeping in a tent, but sleeping in a real bed and the hospital ward
had Playboy magazines lying all around. “Out
here in the fields, I fight for my
meals … I don’t
need to fight to prove I’m
right I don’t
need to be forgiven … Sadly,
take my hand, travel south cross
land, Put out
the fire, and don’t look past
my shoulder. The
exodus is here. The
happy ones are here. Let’s
get together before we get much
older.” The Who, Baba O’Riley During
his research, Kevin Drue Donnelly communicated directly with the
Rockefeller Foundation. He
prepared his facts; Kevin prepared his data on revenue, vaccinations,
counting of population. "You
can tell a man is clever by
his answers. You can
tell a man is wise by his
questions." Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - ), Nobel Prize
Laureate March 23, 2006 the Charlie
Rose Show interviewed David
Rockefeller. The interview
centered on the 50th anniversary of the Asia Society and Mr.
Rockefeller, Philanthropist,
Art Collector, banker, Chase Manhattan Bank. “David
Rockefeller's brother, John D. Rockefeller III, founded the Asia
Society in
1956 … exhibit covers five generations of Rockefeller, family and
contributions
of Asian art. “1926, David
Rockefeller, only eleven years old, parents took a boat, went to China
for
dedication of Peking Union Medical College, the first medical college
or, indeed,
good hospital in China” “David’s
parents went to the college opening, given by his father.
They were gone
three months, in 1926 for Peking Union Medical College opening. “The Rockefellers
opened a university in China in 1926. The Rockefellers
and college began vaccinations in China 1938.” This is part
of the interview that evening March 23, 2006: Charlie Rose:
“And next picture shows India. …This is the Rockefeller Foundation. I
just
returned from India, and they are hoping there may be a second Green
Revolution
to come out to come out of the relationship today. David
Rockefeller: Wouldn’t that be great? I hope -- I hope there is. My brother John at that time, I think was
the chairman of the foundation, and he played an active role in getting
the
foundation interested to support the Green Revolution. Charlie
Rose: These are Chinese being vaccinated
in 1938 because of – of some vaccines – population count – he (John)
was also
-- David: Yes. Charlie: -- he
was also very much interested in population – David: --
yes, he helped to start the population
counts, yes -- Charlie
Rose: These are the pictures of the
malaria campaign, the Rockefeller Foundation? David: Yes.”
(Source: Charlie Rose Show) "Press on. Nothing can take the place of
persistence.” How is this
interview important with details on malaria, population counting and
yellow
fever vaccinations? Facts, data,
people, history – they add up to interesting events, past and present. "You
can tell a man is clever by
his answers. You can
tell a man is wise by his
questions." Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - ), Egyptian
novelist, Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Matsumoto
in Vaccine-A references Max Theiler,
New York’s Rockefeller Institute scientist who, in 1939, “recently
developed a
yellow fever vaccine.” Below are but
a few emails my brother mailed direct to the Rockefeller Foundation and
mentioned Max Theiler, referenced in Matsumoto’s Vaccine-A. Kevin Donnelly
sent this e-mail July 23, 1999: “Subject:
Rockefeller Foundation infects half the
Planet with Hepatitis To:
Denise
Grayfelder, <dgrey-felder@rockfound.org> CC:
Senatory
Rockefeller senator@rockefeller.senate.gov “Rockefeller
Foundation, Now I have no
choice do I? I contacted you first about your role in infecting almost
half the
Planet with Hepatitis and asked for your help.
You asked me to send you my information linking the Rockefeller
Foundation with the Contaminated Yellow Fever Serum and Hepatitis B
Virus from
the late 1930’s that Dr. Max Theiler developed in your labs; this I did. Today, the
Rockefeller Foundation funds the AIDS situation and not the Hepatitis
illness
that they afflicted upon this planet. National
Security is involved only because the Rockefeller Foundation is
involved. Time to
educate the World. What will you
say? That you did not infect one
million Brazilians with Hepatitis in 1938? Remember, you
knew that serum was bad and encouraged others to use in on U.S.
Military
Personnel 4 years later. Today 2.5
Million Veterans have Hepatitis! Today
veterans must (get) behind the AIDS Community for help – you did that
to these
veterans. Going to try
and hide from us now? Kevin Donnelly” “The
national that destroys its soil,
destroys itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1937 Kevin Donnelly
sent this e-mail November 24, 1999: “Subject:
HCV Time line – 5 Million Veterans with HCV To: Steve
Jones, CDC; ALF, Liver Foundation;
Denise Grayfelder, Rockefeller Foundation; WHO. CC:
Rep. Stearns, Secretary Shalala, Senator
Coverdell, Senator Lott, Rep. Gutierrez, Marcia Sayer, Sen. Max
Cleland, Rep.
Shays, Senator McCain, Senator Specter, Senator Rockefeller.” “Approximate
Timeline for HCV” “1900s Walter
Reed dies after 2 years in Panama on
Yellow Fever ….. 1930s
Max Theiler begins work on Yellow
Fever vaccination … Brazil has
outbreak of ‘Hepatitis’ – blamed on vectors from Gambia Max
Theiler (from S. Africa) begins work on Yellow Fever vaccination at the
Rockefeller Medical Institute Theiler
uses Pasteur’s Process to pass Yellow Fever through Mice brains, rather
than
rabbits. (rearrangements in RNA genomes PMID: 7596811) ….. 1938
1
Million Brazilians now infected with Rockefeller’s/Theiler’s Yellow
Fever/HBV
vaccination Japan’s
General Ishii’s Aide comes to NY and Rockefeller to obtain ‘sample’ of
Yellow
Fever/HBV virus. … attached in
Washington to obtain a sample of that strain of the Yellow Fever virus Rockefeller
funding Medical experiments in humans in both Germany and Japan,
involved with
Russians ….. Rockefeller’s
Yellow Fever/HBV vaccine given
to US Army Soldiers and Allied Troops.
330,000 infected ….. Acute
Hepatitis causes a few deaths in the
Military --1943
Through sophisticated testing, the researchers pinpointed 1943 to 1949
as the
years in which HCV initially spread in Japan E.
J. Cohn begins to develop first generation
‘Immune Serum Globulin,’ ISG. More are
contaminated ….. WWII
Ends in Europe and Asia. Veterans go home
and donate blood in all 50
states. German
War Crimes Trial Rockefeller
Manufactures 28 Million Doses of
the Yellow Fever/HBV vaccine by this date.
No record of any destroyed. All
used? ….. --1951
Max Theiler wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on a Yellow Fever
Vaccination at the Rockefeller Institute …. 1952
Adenovirus magically appears only in Military basic training recruits
from the
mid-west – meet the ‘new’ 1918 Spanish Flu.
Half mamilian and half avairian – or bird … 1962
Cancer research begins with Adenovirus on mouse cell(s) 1966 Mass inoculation with
Yellow Fever
vaccination from the Rockefeller Institute and given by pet-o-jets. …” Kevin Donnelly sent an
e-mail January
24, 2000: “Subject:
HCV transmission and Mosquitoes To:
NCID/VBI Public Inquiries dvbid@cdc.gov
“CDC, “ … I have researched the
virus to the
nucleotide for over two years and it appears that other than a public
relations
problem for you, and maybe a legal issue down the road, there is no
valid
reason why HCV, an Arbo-flavivirus, should not be transmitted by the
same means
as Yellow Fever. Speaking of
which, you claim on your web page that it does not occur in America. Funny, for a hundred years it did until
Rockefeller used their vaccine on U.S. Military with HBV in it to
infect half
the planet. From that
point Yellow Fever vanishes in the USA.
Why, they even transferred their program to YALE and changed the
name in
1964, once they knew there was a problem with HCV. Why should
America believe the CDC now after decades of misleading us about HCV? There are WW II and Korean War vets with HCV
today. Either the CDC deliberately
misled the American people, or they completely missed an illness that
has
existed since MAX THEILER first ran Yellow fever through mice brains,
then
minced in human serum as a stabilizer. Since you had
the perfect opportunity to gauge the HCV problem in NY while you were
testing
for what you’ve told the public is a rare virus from Africa, versus a
population in the NY area that probably is almost 1 MILLION with HBV,
HCV, HGV,
or TTV. Why was I
taught in the military that vectors transmit blood-borne viruses, but
when it
comes to someone being held accountable for a virus, then suddenly
insects have
no bearing – except on Wall Street where many are cashing in on the
promise of
HCV research in insect cells – something the CDC claims does not occur. But then again
you have called almost 8 million veterans with HCV, junkies. But the research says the CDC and
Rockefeller are responsible for more deaths than all the Wars this past
century
combined. Trust is
something we no longer have in you or your organization.
That harms us all. Why have you
lied to millions of us? I do not mind
dying from HCV. But, I wholeheartedly
have no respect for ‘trusted’ public institutions that mislead Citizens
to the
point of death – the largest group being veterans that have served. Kevin
Donnelly, Captain, USAR” “Nowhere
to run, nowhere to hide, when
it’s soul-deep, deep inside. Got
nowhere to run, got nowhere to
hide. Martha Reeves And The Vendellas Kevin Donnelly
wrote a letter and e-mail to the Defense Department, Charlie Y.
Talbott, OATSD,
PA, Room, 2C757, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20229, Wednesday, 29
December
1999:
"Dear FOIA Officer: This is a
request filed under the Freedom of
Information Act.
I request that all documents
containing information regarding the following topic be provided to me:
Relating to the 1942 Yellow Fever and
HBV contaminated vaccine given to US Army Soldiers in 1942.
In order to help to determine my
status to assess fees, you should know that I am an individual seeking
information for personal use and not for commercial use.
I am willing to pay fees for this
request up to a maximum of $ 100. If
you estimate that the fees will exceed this limit, please inform me
first.
Reason for wavier: Researching
Yellow Fever
Thank you for your consideration of my
request.
Sincerely, Kevin Donnelly" “With
or without you, with or without
you, The
storms reach the shore, we gave it
all, but I want more, And I
wait for it, with or without you,
with or without you. And you give yourself away, and you
give, you give yourself away.” Sting Kevin Donnelly
forwarded an e-mail he composed, Tuesday, 4, January 2000 (he had been
in an ER
ward, days earlier, on his last Christmas Eve and Christmas morning,
driven by
a neighbor, Marine veteran):
"Just a note .... I have now
finished consolidating most of the time line info - that I have been
collecting
from the past two years.
But I'm time lined out by now, but, it
is a must if we are to have a better understanding of who, what, when
and the
where's - concerning hepatitis today.
I posted the CIA info to show what the
spies were doing while this was all going on.
I see no CIA HCV connection - only (Max) Theiler's work with
Yellow
fever for HCV and radiation involved from the start with HBV.
I must now figure out how to best send
out the "Master Time-Line" with all the other time lines integrated
into it. It is fascinating and reads
like a trail through the 20th Century - the good and the bad of it.
This is all a process like honing a
knife - slowly, the picture emerges.
Only, it involves areas that many
would rather not face or have to deal with - for some, this may be the
best
time to finally put this behind us.
Some say, in order to move forward you
must know where you've been - personally, I just want the truth. Kevin
:>) " “Mathematics
possesses not only truth,
but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.” Betrand Russell Head down, I
share had Kevin’s research and the two items Kevin’s parents requested
been returned
to his mother and father –– had Kevin’s non-monetary items been shared,
I, as others,
would have walked away without many glances back to the bleak dark
memories. My life would
have continued on its path, as others who have lost loved, dear family
members. “But
isn’t that they way they say it
goes I’ve
overcome the blow; I’ve learned to
take it well? I only
wish my words would convince
myself That it
just wasn’t real, but that’s
not the way it feels No, no, no, no, that’s not the way it
feels. Jim Croce Yet I must
share that each time I, Kevin’s Sister, do intend to walk away, An event
occurs, a prediction becomes true, more data supports facts that others
and
Kevin worked upon so hard –– and died –– to preserve for us. “When
the tombstone is inaccurate, you
have to stand and make hard
choices.” We would not
spend hours, documenting, sharing, backing up our work, continuing to
discuss
the movie with true facts, additional details. “Until
it ends, there is no end. All
through the night stray cat is
crying, So
stray cat sings back all through the
night … And
once we start, the meter clicks, And it
goes running all through the
night … Until it ends, there is no end.” Cindy
Lauper Gary Matsumoto
ends Vaccine-A with acknowledgments, “Leveling
allegations of this magnitude against two of the most powerful
bureaucracies in
the world – the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Health
and
Human Services – is not for the fainthearted.
“But if some
of my secular-minded friends will pardon my lapse into the
quasi-theological, I
have to say that whenever I have faltered, I have always received help. “I didn’t find
it; it found me. And so I kept going.” As Kevin’s
Sister, I understand, Gary Matsumoto, author Vaccine-A. You are brave,
Gary, as is Anderson Cooper, author Dispatches
From The Edge. Captain Drue
Donnelly was also brave and he understood, author The
Panama Story. “Open
up the window, let some air into
this room. I’ve
seen so many things I ain’t never
seen before. Mama
told me not to come. She
said, son, that ain’t the way to
have fun.” Three Dog Night I, as others, never
wanted on this path. Veterans with
illness, patients who become ill, and family members who watch from the
sidelines or who themselves acquire illness must build teams with
better communication. We have much
to teach other. The teacher
always learns much from the student. In fact, the
student becomes the teacher. When the
student is ready, the teacher appears. When the
teacher is ready, the student appears, and Lord,
there are millions of students here who will be our teachers when we really listen. Then the
veteran, the patient, with much to give, will share much. Then the large
machines behind the vaccines, the drugs, the experimentations will
alter the
course Gary Matsumoto predicts in Vaccine-A. “Lend
me your ears, and I’ll sing you a
song, and
I’ll try not to sing out of key. Oh, I
get by with a little help from my
friends, What do
you see when you turn out the
light? I can’t
tell you but I know it’s mine. Oh, I
get by with a little help from my
friends, With a little help from my friends.”
John Lennon We share
responsibly when we discuss the truth, the facts and when we support
each
other. My goal
this year is:
To create
moments where we transform the message of inaccuracies; To transform hopelessness
of disease and private inner residences into
conversations; To bring
awareness and answers with understanding, compassion, advocacy and hope. My wish to
you: May it be so. “Welcome
to your life, there’s no
turning back It’s my
own design; It’s my
own remorse Help me
to decide; Help me
to make the most of freedom and
of pleasure Nothing
ever lasts forever.” Tears For Fears We have a
saying now in our family, “When the
tombstone is inaccurate, you have to stand and make hard choices.” Kevin's Sister August 5, 2006 Copyright
2006
Sixth Year
Tribute
August 5, 2006
People busily worked
shrimp cages, crap nets and multiple
fishing poles.
The wind was warm,
blowing gently ––
said,
After the death of his brother, Carter Cooper, Anderson said, “I wanted
to be
someplace …where the pain outside matched the pain I was feeling
inside.
Washington
DC, Two Years and Nine Months After He Departed”
By
Kevin’s Sister,
Monette
Benoit August
5th, 2003Funny, funny how time goes by
And blessings are missed in the wink of an eye
Why, oh why, oh why, should one have to go on suffering.” R. Kelly
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933),
30th
President of the U.S.
To gather the ending of this Sixth Year Tribute to Kevin Drue Donnelly: