WHAT MAKES AVERAGE AMERICANS GREAT

With everyone in America being, so different, it is the 'Unity of Opposites' that pulls us together. 

WHEN THE ODDS ARE COMPLETELY STACKED AGAINST US, WE TAKE ACTION AND FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT ANYWAY.

Evil can never compete against truth, as long as there are good people willing to stand up against it....

John ‘Jack’ Cunningham is the youngest of seven children born from a middle class family from Queens, New York City. His family was a family of public service. With three generations of NYC police officers, Jack dreamed of the day that he would enter the police force like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He also dreamed of the day he would serve in the American military like his two older brothers, an uncle and two brother-in-laws. With most of them enlisting in the Army, one brother in the Navy, Jack wanted to volunteer in the Marine Corps’ like his sister’ husband who served in the Marines during the Korea War at the Chosin Reservoir. Jack mother’s oldest brother served in combat in France during World War I. Jack Cunningham's family were all proud of their service and jobs for America. Jack wanted no less for himself. And he got what he wanted... plus some. 

He was going to learn first hand, what terrorism was really about.  There the teenager from Rosedale, Queens, NYC learned never to give up, especially, if you have great buddies supporting you and you can trust...  And learn that "Honesty Defeats Duplicity."

In Vietnam, John "Jack" Cunningham was a rifleman living and serving (24/7) in a Vietnamese peasant-farming village with about 8 other U.S. Marines and about 1,500 families. Combat was heavy, and threats of combat were constant. Even to this day, few Americans heard of the Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP).  It was known as 'The Other War' and also the 'Unknown War'.  The CAP program was awarded by the Vietnamese government their two highest unit awards for Gallantry and Civil Actions.

The unscrupulous, evil communists always knew the small team of mostly-teenage Americans were in the village somewhere. The Americans were not hiding. During the day light hours, the Americans were usually spread out in a number of areas of the village as they helped the peasants in civil action support.  At night time, the Marines were together set up in their nightly ambushes, protecting the village from terrorist attacks.

Communications between the young, mostly teenage Americans and Vietnamese needed to be constant.  The young Marines really had to know, the best they could, who they were talking and interacting with.  Anyone of the Vietnamese could be a terrorist or terrorist supporter.  The terrorists could be anywhere and everyone.

Communications could be positive as well as extremely negative.  At least two times a week, the communists would generate intelligence reports that hundreds of communists were coming to wipe out the CAP team of Americans.  Because some CAP teams did get wiped out by large scale attacks, the Americans had to prepare mentally as well as physically for the possibility of these threatening large attacks.  It was like getting an almost nightly death sentence.  The young Americans had to wait until the night was over to see if the reports were real.  It was psychological warfare, where the damage would take it's toll from night to night as well as a toll for a lifetime.  Death threats, that come often, are not something the human mind would easily forget.

Being such a small isolated unit, the Marines were always saving each other.  Jack was credited by some buddies on risking his life to save three of his buddies during an intense action.  A mother and father of one of the Marines got in touch with Jack's parents and thanked them for Jack saving their son.  Everyone had to do their job. Everyone counted on their brothers.  The Marines were together and ready to fight to the last man. (They didn't have that many to start with.) Some days, there were only 4 Marines out there in the village.  Surrender to the communist terrorists were never an option.  (This attitude of never giving up would help Jack later in life when he faced evil and fought against corruption mostly alone in his state government.)

 The evil, unscrupulous Vietnamese communists hated Americans living with the peasants. They even placed bounties on each of the young Marines' lives.  Jack would often joke with the other Marines that the communists only had a fifty cent bounty on his head.  The terrorists wanted the villagers to believe all the lies of how evil American troops were. After all, the communists working with the American news media, and Leftist organizations back in the United States, already had many Americans believing these lies and evil about their own troops.  (Drug-Crazed-Heartless, Baby-Killers and Village-Burners)

Using terror and fear as their weapons to keep the people in line, the communists wanted the people to support and supply them. The unscrupulous terrorists could not compete against the truth. For that matter, evil can never compete against truth.

Whether the Americans came from the streets of New York, Chicago, L. A. or Dallas; whether the Americans came from large or small farming families, they had many of the same values of the Vietnamese peasants. The most important being ‘friendship.’ The young Americans had their rifles, but their most widely used weapons of choice were friendship, kindness, respect and trust. The Marine Corps’ Combined Action Program (CAP) had a nickname, ‘The Peace Corps Volunteers With Rifles.’

Mostly the Americans, who served in the small CAP Teams, were volunteers. But because the communists hated the Americans living with the people so much, many CAP teams were getting wiped out to the last Marine. But the Marines never lost a village to the communists.

During these periods, the program could not get enough volunteers. Marines were assigned to serve in the villages. John ‘Jack’ Cunningham was one of those assigned. He received his orders for CAP, even before he left America. Back in California, he heard all the nightmares of serving in CAP. The eighteen year old New Yorker even heard that CAP was a suicide squad.  Jack was scared of what did he get himself into, but he knew that he was well-trained and ready. The thought of living with the people was scary, but it also sounded very interesting for this New York eighteen year old.

Like most Marines and Navy Corpsman who served, Jack did his job, plus some extra. Like most CAP Marines, he enjoyed the people. Many times, he helped the U.S. Navy Corpsman with the daily lines for treating minor cuts and bruises of peasants.  Anything more serious than a cut or bruise the Navy Corpsman would handle.  If the Navy corpsman could not help the peasant, an U.S. Army medical helicopter would be called in and the peasant would be taken to a U.S. military hospital in Da Nang.  Helping care for the Vietnamese people was a joint effort by each of the American military branches.  (If the American people back home would have believed the truth that they were not being told by the American News Media, the Vietnam War would have ended in a more positive way, especially for the Vietnamese people.)

Jack and his close buddy, George Dros also became the CAP team's demolition men.  They blew dud rounds ranging from hand grenades on up to a 500 pound bomb that did not explode from an air strike on some terrorists..  They were also responsible for blowing up terrorist installations, mines and tunnels.  Their five minute on the job training did not prepare them for the common problems dealing with bad fuse lines.  All to often, they had to walk (crawl) back to piles of explosives that did not blow because of bad fuses.  Some times the fuses just burned slower and exploded, while George and Jack made their way back to reblow the piles.  Being eighteen, they laughed at the close calls as if they were dealing with fire crackers back home.  Laugh was the only thing they could do, because they still had to do the same thing tomorrow.   

The combat was heavy and there were many occasions of night and day combat actions. Everyday there were patrols and ambushes set up by his CAP Team. During three separate actions, he was wounded by shrapnel. He received one Purple Heart for one of the wounds. And he still carries around some of the medal and sufferers from rib damage and pain from the RPG bomb blast he was targeted with.

The Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) was a great success in the 114 Vietnamese villages it served.  The Marines never lost a village, which Jack is extremely proud of serving in.  Fifty years later, many Marines, who lived in the villages, still retain their close friendships with Vietnamese peasants.

After the Vietnam War, Jack went 18 years into a successful IT (data processing) career. He got along with everyone. He used many of the same tools that he used with the people of the Duc Duc Refugee Village: friendship, kindness, respect and trust.  And he added 'Leadership' and quickly became Project Manager of the large, health insurance corporation Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.  Before long, he had a staff of 17 computer experts working for him. Based on Marine Corps' training and attitude, no job was impossible.  With no college, he had a great skill of knowing people. He learned it from living in the village. His computer programming staff became his CAP Team.  That's when PTSD started to take him out.

Combat PTSD is like a huge, iceberg-like onion.  There are many separate layers of thoughts, fears and memories.  If a combat vet is lucky, each layer stands out and surfaces at a time. With the right help and support, one layer at a time can be peeled away, understood and trained to deal with through tools of therapy.   It's when multiple layers surface at once when the real problems come.  It's like a ten lane expressway coming to a one lane tunnel.   All a PTSD sufferer wants is the thoughts, fears and memories to stop.  To stop Immediately.  But for everyone, who knows a little about PTSD, there is no easy-magic switch.  Instead, they are told to reach out for help.  They are told that people would understand...  They will get help and support.  Americans do really care.

Jack knew he was having problems before he went out on disability, but back then the name PTSD was just coming out.   He was having major problems dealing with survivor guilt.  He was told by many fellow vets to reach out for help.  Jack ended up in a VA hospital for PTSD. He ended up having a total of 6 hospital stays for PTSD just for the survivor guilt.   It's was during an unscrupulous New Jersey Supreme Court fraud cover up that is described below that Jack's stress level increased again that more VA hospital stays were recommended by doctors. 

About 11 years into the PTSD, with five kids, 2 of them minors, Jack got divorced. It was the first time, he faced big time discrimination for PTSD. The discrimination did not come from his ex-wife or her lawyer. The discrimination came from his own lawyer and his own law firm that he paid to represent him. Jack was dumbfounded.   The corrupt lawyers never communicated with him, had him fall into a four-month divorce default because of their gross negligence, where his two minor children could be taken away, openly overcharged him, false-billed him, came to court unprepared, etc, etc. etc. They had a field day tag-teaming Jack in and out of court.  The law firm was pushing every PTSD trigger, Jack had and than some...   He was even battling chronic rib, neck and back pain (RPG Bomb Blast from his village days).  His unscrupulous, corrupt law firm, Maynard & Truland's unprofessionalism had his PTSD stress level so increased that a team of Federal VA doctors recommended that he enter into a VA hospital 45 day stress unit.  (It is well documented in his official federal VA medical records.)  At the time, he could not go into the hospital because he could not trust his own law firm.  The corrupt law firm lawyers were more concerned about themselves and Jack strongly felt that their carelessness and greed would impact his fatherly custody rights.  At the time, Jack was already in a four-month divorce default, because of their gross negligence.     

Jack could not stop them from their 'malicious' legal malpractice and 'malicious' ethics violations.  (I write 'malicious' malpractice and 'malicious' ethics violations because the Maynard & Truland law firm completely understood that Jack Cunningham suffered from PTSD.  Every time Jack communicated with them in writing he stated that he had PTSD.  He was trying to reach out.  He did this not because he was looking for pity. Pity was the last thing he was looking for.  He wanted justice.  Just regular justice.  The same justice that every American deserves through the Constitution.  The Vietnam PTSD vet was begging that the lawyers would act professionally.  Jack mentioned his PTSD so many times in letters, James Maynard, senior partner of the Maynard & Truland law firm, mentioned it to the New Jersey Supreme Court in his perjury filled law firm's sworn certifications.) 

Regardless of Jack begging for the 'malicious' lawyers to act professionally, they had no need to.  Because one of their law firm's own attorneys also worked for the state's Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Ethics and was well-protected from above. Robert Correale was the Vice-Chairman of the local New Jersey Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Committee.   There was tremendous power and influence differential between Jack and Robert Correale.  Jack was a PTSD Vietnam vet and Robert Correale was working for the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Vice-Chairman of Attorney Ethics. Unscrupulous, Robert Correale carried tremendous influence with local lawyers, courts and even judges that Jack would later learn first hand.  

  The exhausted veteran could not get a lawyer to support him, because no career-minded New Jersey attorney wanted to go after the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics.  It would be career suicide.  Jack had to handle his full battle alone.  But he was also writing to numerous New Jersey politicians in the hope that someone in NJ State Government would stop this Obstruction of Justice by the New Jersey Supreme Court Office Of Attorney Ethics.   Again, he tried to reach out for help.  But no one took the lead.  Most New Jersey politicians just played silent and never returned Jack's letters.  He was alone in his battle.  Fighting New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics Vice Chairman Robert Correale, the Maynard & Truland law firm and those in the New Jersey Supreme Court protecting them, Jack felt he was back in his village daily battling terrorists. It was endless, but he could not give up.  It was a feeling that Jack would not wish on his worse enemy.  The State of New Jersey was not only completely failing Jack Cunningham, Jack felt that they were using his disability to protect their Supreme Court Vice Chairman Robert Correale and his Maynard & Truland law firm. 

This feeling became all too clear, when Attorney Ethics Vice Chairman Robert Correale openly mocked Jack twice for his PTSD disability without question in Robert Correale's own sworn Certifications to the NJ Supreme Court.  Correale's and his fellow Maynard & Truland attorneys' sworn Certifications were filled with perjury, false and misleading statements.  They had all the power that the NJ Supreme Court was giving them without question even though they had no supporting evidence with their certifications.

Besides, eighteen years ago, who would believe a PTSD disabled veteran over the good name of a New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics Vice Chairman.  Almost everyone just didn't believe it actually happened.  Why would lawyers and a law firm just commit legal malpractice and ethics violations against their own client.  Jack felt very alone.  The silence of New Jersey politicians and state agencies that Jack wrote to helped the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics maintain their criminal cover-up. 

The only thing Jack could do was tell his VA PTSD doctors and therapists, take his VA medicine and try to keep from committing suicide due to the exacerbated stress they were causing him.  He was also under VA hospital therapy for his chronic rib, chest and back pain.  But Jack did have tremendous, clear, easy to read evidence against these New Jersey State terrorists.  He was using Maynard & Truland's own contract, invoices, court filed letters and court filed documents.

His five kids meant everything to him.  Besides being his children, his kids were another little CAP Team.  Surrender to a gang of corrupt lawyers and corrupt state officials was never an option.  (Just like surrender to communist terrorists was never an option.)  But what they were openly doing to Jack would drive an average father without PTSD into a family-court meltdown.  Jack was a lone.  He was doing a great deal of praying.  And he was asking his family and friends to pray.

This was only the start of a 18 year-saga to bring them to justice, along with those in high levels of New Jersey State government and courts, who protected them.  There would be open written lawyer-perjury to the NJ Supreme Court, verbal perjury in court, a Superior Court transcript strangely going missing before it could be used as evidence in two levels of court.  The list of corruption, cover up and criminal fraud goes on.  And even after 18 years of Jack battling, the New Jersey Supreme Court justices, state politicians and state officials are still protecting Robert Correale, his formal law firm Maynard & Truland, along with the state's image.

Jack Cunningham could not give up trying to bring justice to these evil, high level state officials and court officials, because they can easily do it again to another PTSD veteran and average citizen.  It was the same premise he had while serving in his village.  Never give up against evil.

Even after 18 years, he is still waiting for the day an honest federal investigation and or honest New Jersey State investigation is going to finally review his hundreds of pages of evidence that he has collected from the start of this New Jersey Supreme Court fraud, discrimination and the denial of his Due Process Cover-Up.  He still continues to reach out to average, Americans who really care about veterans.  However, he wishes that more Americans understood.

NO VETERAN SHOULD BE ABANDONED 

The Congressman's below initial comments were clear, simple and to the point.

"Veterans, who return home from serving our nation should not face discrimination and must receive equal protection under the law." Congressman Josh Gottheimer initial comments to the DOJ

Dear Mr. John "Jack" Cunningham 

­The DOJ is reviewing your information and have given us no timeline for response. Our office has been calling once every two weeks to check status. Please be patient as things at this level take time. I can assure that both you and our office will receive a response.

Office of Congressman Josh Gottheimer

                         ROBERT JAMES PIERCE

                U.S. Marines,  Died August 11, 1970

Below is a actual copy of Robert Correale's webpage bio on the Maynard & Truland website.  Since he is no longer an attorney at Maynard & Truland, this page is not on their website.  In fact, Maynard & Truland is no longer an active law firm.  The partners went their separate ways.

Please note how this webpage below lists Robert D. Correale as the Vice-Chairman of New Jersey's Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics District X committee.  The page also lists him as Assistant New Jersey Somerset County Prosecutor and Jefferson Twp. Prosecutor.  All three positions carry a great deal of power and influence around the State of New Jersey.   (If Robert Correale himself, was found guilty of Attorney Ethics violations and/or legal malpractice all or some of the cases that he sat over in those three positions might have to be reviewed and retried.)

FRAUD, RICO I.e. racketeering is also involved in this case due to the fact that a number of people have acted together to obstruct justice and deny you of your constitutional rights.

John "Jack" Cunningham's case against the State of New Jersey is interesting.

Statute of limitations issue is bogus… fraud has no limitation in federal court, and Statute of limitations runs from the time the fraud is found… It is an act to deceive, an act of fraud, an act to manipulate due process, - sanctions should be implemented – One of many cases spell this out… Referring both to the objective and subjective elements, we have held that qualified immunity would be defeated if an official "knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the [plaintiff], or if he took the action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury." Harlow et al v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800; 102 S. Ct. 2727; 73 L. Ed. 2d 396; (1982). (Emphasis added)