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Dear Mary Anastasia O'Grady,

       I'm a veterans advocate, blogger and disabled Vietnam veteran from New Jersey, who needs help with a news story.   Currently, I’m receiving support from State Senator Steven Oroho, Assemblywoman Alison Littell-McHose and Assemblyman Gary R. Chiusano, but even these dedicated and honorable legislators are getting stumbling blocks thrown at their feet from higher powers in government.  (Details below)  In the meantime, I placed some personal details about myself for you to read.

      As a veterans advocate with 22 years of data processing experience, I was able to help keep the Marine Corps’ Remembrance Memorial at Pearl Harbor and was instrumental in helping to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal and state funds to correct a flooding problem over graves in a state’s veterans cemetery.  (For three years prior to placing it on the internet, the state government denied a flooding problem existed in the veterans’ cemetery.)

      I served and lived (24/7) in the Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP).   CAP concepts are now being used in Afghanistan and are credited for much of the success of the Surge in Iraq.  The CAP approach is "small numbers of Marines lived in villages throughout the countryside, working with residents in a combination of social-service and defense-consultant roles, to improve security and living conditions."  (Scott Gartner, professor of U.S. national security at University of California) 

I was no hero in Vietnam.  I served proudly and honorably like millions of men and women during that bitter war.  I earned a Purple Heart for one of three wounds that I received (two minor) and some of my buddies credited me with saving the lives of three Marines who were pinned down without their weapons.  You can read some of my personal experiences at:  http://www.CapVeterans.com   

I lived in the Duc Duc Refugee Village and was part of President Nixon’s troop pullout from the area.  Seven months after our pullout, Vietnamese communist terrorists burned the refugee village to ash on March 29, 1971.  Two thousands homes were turned to ash, and hundreds and hundreds of innocent villagers were killed, wounded and reported missing.   I built a number of WebPages, dedicated to the people (And my friends) of the Duc Duc refugee village.

      Now, this is the real reason why I’m writing to you to ask for help.   Eight years ago, I hired a New Jersey law firm to represent me in a divorce proceeding.   There were no marriage financial assets, but the custody of two minor children was at stake.  There were three other adult children.

For the next five months, the divorce proceeding turned into a combat-flashback, and the Veterans Administration (VA) wanted to hospitalize me over it.   Not because of my former wife or her attorney, but because of the total lack of professionalism and open unethical behavior of my own law firm. 

The ethic complaints start with the law firm's gross negligence, over-charging per hour, false billing, lack of communications, coming to court unprepared, changing attorney representation without knowledge and approval of client and open perjury to the New Jersey Supreme Court and Superior Court systems.   Evidence is the law firm’s own contact, invoices, court-filed letters, court-filed documents and court-filed sworn statements, NJ Supreme Court attorney certifications, etc.  Why the law firm professionally abused and bullied me might be because I’m a disabled PTSD veteran and they thought they can get away with it.  But the real reason why they got away with it for eight years is due to the fact of the law firm’s powerful and influential connections to the state’s Supreme Court.  One of their attorney’s, Robert Correale was working for the New Jersey Supreme Court’s prestigious Office of Attorney Ethics as Vice-Chairman.  Covering-up Robert Correale’s and his law firm’s fellow attorneys’ open ethics violations prevented a huge state-wide and national embarrassment from being exposed.  The Cover-up involves the governor’s office, the state’s attorney general’s office, Senator Robert Menendez’s office as well the highest supervisor positions in the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics.  You can read more details and evidence at:    http://www.americans-working-together.com/attorney_ethics/id73.html

    Mary, For various reasons, if you can not do a story on this, please pass it to someone who could.

            Sincerely & Truthfully

         Jack "John" Cunningham

2 Wilson Road  20B

Sussex, NJ  07461

(973) 875-1608