LeRoy E. Cossette
I am Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran and served with "A" Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines who became known as "The Walking Dead" so proclaimed by the leader of North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh. The 1st Battalion, 9th Marines lost 629 killed in action and thousands of wound.
I served as Health Care Administrator with the Department of Veterans Affairs for thirty-two years, spending the last eleven years at VA Headquarters in Washington, eight years as Chief of Policy and Operations and the last two years as Acting Director of Headquarters Health Administrative Service.
During the eleven years in Washington, I worked closely with members of Congress and White House staff regarding Veterans issues. It was while working with Congressional members of both parties, in both chambers of Congress, that I began to become aware that most members of Congress were there for their own personal benefit and interests and not for the benefit of the people they were elected to represent.
I found it very difficult to get anything accomplished when working with these elected members of Congress and the unelected staff members of the White House which I address in my book "American Insanity."
Following retirement, I served as a volunteer fire fighter and EMT for nine years; trained for and received my private pilot licenses and bought my own single engine Grumman Cheeta in which I flew around the country for many years. I am a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo and was a nationally certified instructor; I have served two two-year terms as township Counselman and co-owned a private business with my eldest son.
I am currently active with the GOP, and I am a District Captain and Content Writer for the Convention of States Action movement. I am a political activist and writer of political Op-eds for news media.
I am the author of "American Insanity" which reflects on the political insanity that has overtaken the United States of America.
It addresses American citizen's apathetic view of our governing system, both towards elected officials and the ever-controlling Washington bureaucracy.
How and why the citizens of this Nation have failed their obligation to keep vigilance over our governing politicians and holding them accountable when they fail to uphold their promises and their oath to office. Compares the America I grew up in, which is rapidly slipping away, to the Nation it has now become.
"American Insanity" addresses the insanity that we the American citizens are now living through while the "Last Vestige of Hope for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," rapidly transforms from a Constitutional Republic into a Marxist-Communist Nation.
It addresses a failed two-party political system that no longer supports and protects our Judeo-Christian values upon which the United States was founded. Parties which have lost their moral compass, strength, and courage to protect our Constitutional Republic and the citizens therein.