In Feb 2001 I joined the military at 17 to follow my families legacy of being in the military. I joined to take care of my family, I at that time had a little one on the way. I just wanted to be a responsible "MAN". I Thought I'll go Army, what a good place to do so. I joined at seventeen and I was doing a great job of handling my responsibility as a dad, and as a Father. I was sent to baquoba, Iraq with HHC4ID at the age of 18 in 2003. While out in Iraq I was a Combat Medic, and being out there and going through the war with all that was seen and experienced it has left a long lasting impression on my life, who I am, the way my mind works and the things that I'm able to do. I was there a year and while there I was abandoned by my ex-wife who took my kid and disappeared. That was after coming home for emergency leave and getting my kid back from her parents that she just left there. I was called from the states by my state side commander told the situation got put on leave and went home to get kids tooke. Care of. I found no signs of unfaithfulness or anything just that she was using drugs. So I set up necessary treatment got my kids back from in laws and set up power of attorneys for my ex wife to take care of everything needed. I wasn't suppose to go back but the commander here sent me against my company commanders orders. When I got back to Iraq it was then I found out everything after multiple attempts at using a sattetlie phone to punch in my voicemail code the sattetlie bounces signals off each other to make a call and it's damn near time consuming but it happens. I found she was cheating and some guy who she was with were together at my house with my kids. The new car I wanted was in fact his. I found out basically I was taking care of a family just I was in Iraq fighting while I was replaced and didn't know it. Loans were accumulated in my name and all the time I was in Iraq I was basically a broke man with no support. My money suppose to be set 50 bucks a month to account for basic stuff needed was even used and overdrafted in a negative amount. I had no deodorant I was without any kind of luxuries accept for what the iraqi who I was friends with provided me on account of my own morals and respect as to how I treated a human being WRATHER then abusing power like other soldiers to hit push mistreat the locals. I stood up to be a good man and it was all that helped me enough to get small things to survive out there. I came back with no family in the gymnasium at our return ceremony. When they called us heroes I was in tears because I was alone after a year in a war zone. Heroes had families hugging them and holding them emotionally it messed me up. I saw a lot of things you don't know mess u up till you come back from something like that. I had been back only a little while and I started having issues seargants that said they would help me get stuff back in order turned on me to be against me causing issues to functioning at my unit. I was in essence put down and completely mistreated they wrote statements saying they were not informed of my issues when all my issues were on the table my heart on my sleeve honestly open I was put out of the military because of the depression the stress what the war had done to me. I was not helped or even remotely to be the same as I was before. The effect of the issues were obvious and continued still to this day. I have PTSD severely, All my life has been run by things that make it very hard to deal with. I get into a debate or argument with someone I love and the events trigger worries fears nightmares. I get worked up or something hits deep I have issues functioning my mind runs rapidly I get anxiety and over worrying and depression come. I get a episode and that Lil one thing effects all around me puts me in danger and my whole life is up in the air. I am bi polar also so it's like a amplifier to my emotions feelings, that on thing agitates the other like a constant panic attack mixed in with negative outcomes I cut myself or wind up in the hospital in a petition from police, I am stuck hiding in a bathroom when confrontation or symptoms start. I have a problem remembering things, I forget what I'm doing s after starting my task that's important, I become depressed having suicidal thoughts, have tried to commit suicide on the account my emotions and expressions don't match. People think I'm sad or irritated when I'm happy or think I ignore them when I am just avoiding things that cause me to feel emotional pain or have any thoughts of things that I've been through. I get stressed out in public around people or driving in traffic. All the world's changed for me and my every will is to just live and survive, be a provider to my wife who I am married to now that's my everything the reason I'm alive. To be a father to my kids who are hers biologically but are mine for I love them they are to me inside my own. I stepped up to be there father. Mine was taken and never seen again since 2003. I was lucky enough to have a second chance at being a father to kids. I love them there my world. I have been frantically and with all my heart trying my very best to succeed at this life of mine. I go hard and stop at nothing most issues I'm able to figure out a way to make something happen. The finances I've been responsible and taken every measure of being a provider budgeting and paying bills on time. I don't over spend or just not pay attention to money going in or out. This payday my account was short not a little but a lot. $1,000 has been sent to a cash app card without authorization and permission. I asked the teller and they handed me a phone number which I called to set this issue straight. Thinking fraud is always protected against I made a claim for it, the incident was done through online banking, the account someone signed into with my password and username used the zelle option and sent money out of my account. Now that it's has been done I am out my money to pay my rent. I have no other choice or option to make it back for every chance is down at this moment. My car two weeks ago taken out by rains that cause my engine to hydro lock so it doesn't run. I can't get a loan on it or get cans or bottles fast enough on foot to make a dent on any effort of making it. So I am asking with my heart to please help me in this situation. I am in need of help and fast. I have my family and I love them. I'm old-school so I am the man I take care of all of everything even as a disabled vet. My every part of me is about my family taking care of them providing never failing them. I feel like I am lost and I don't want to lose our place or put my wife or kids through that. I never expected that my money in a bank could be taken like that. Nor that someone who illegally gets ur password username can get what has been taken thats never even met you. It's really sad, depressing! I'm not ashamed to ask for help! I am asking for I really need help I don't normally but maybe someone can help me that has the extra or understands what I'm going through. Please if you can help me, I'm a veteran just trying to do the best I can through what's sometimes seem impossible, but I have made it all this time as a disabled vet and If one time is all I have to ask for help then I'm not ashamed to ask, I just don't want to fail my wife or my kids, I've been through a lot and they've seen alot but nothing yet that I haven't been there super man on the other side of a problem. Thank you for your time and reading this. I appreciate it greatly all given in the future will be payed forward in some way, for I give to people who need help in all I relate to. Again thank you.
Michael Coggan
Phoenix,Az
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Michael Coggan
In Feb 2001 I joined the military at 17 to follow my families legacy of being in the military. I joined to take care of my family, I at that time had a little one on the way. I just wanted to be a responsible "MAN". I Thought I'll go Army, what a good place to do so. I joined at seventeen and I was doing a great job of handling my responsibility as a dad, and as a Father. I was sent to baquoba, Iraq with HHC4ID at the age of 18 in 2003. While out in Iraq I was a Combat Medic, and being out there and going through the war with all that was seen and experienced it has left a long lasting impression on my life, who I am, the way my mind works and the things that I'm able to do. I was there a year and while there I was abandoned by my ex-wife who took my kid and disappeared. That was after coming home for emergency leave and getting my kid back from her parents that she just left there. I was called from the states by my state side commander told the situation got put on leave and went home to get kids tooke. Care of. I found no signs of unfaithfulness or anything just that she was using drugs. So I set up necessary treatment got my kids back from in laws and set up power of attorneys for my ex wife to take care of everything needed. I wasn't suppose to go back but the commander here sent me against my company commanders orders. When I got back to Iraq it was then I found out everything after multiple attempts at using a sattetlie phone to punch in my voicemail code the sattetlie bounces signals off each other to make a call and it's damn near time consuming but it happens. I found she was cheating and some guy who she was with were together at my house with my kids. The new car I wanted was in fact his. I found out basically I was taking care of a family just I was in Iraq fighting while I was replaced and didn't know it. Loans were accumulated in my name and all the time I was in Iraq I was basically a broke man with no support. My money suppose to be set 50 bucks a month to account for basic stuff needed was even used and overdrafted in a negative amount. I had no deodorant I was without any kind of luxuries accept for what the iraqi who I was friends with provided me on account of my own morals and respect as to how I treated a human being WRATHER then abusing power like other soldiers to hit push mistreat the locals. I stood up to be a good man and it was all that helped me enough to get small things to survive out there. I came back with no family in the gymnasium at our return ceremony. When they called us heroes I was in tears because I was alone after a year in a war zone. Heroes had families hugging them and holding them emotionally it messed me up. I saw a lot of things you don't know mess u up till you come back from something like that. I had been back only a little while and I started having issues seargants that said they would help me get stuff back in order turned on me to be against me causing issues to functioning at my unit. I was in essence put down and completely mistreated they wrote statements saying they were not informed of my issues when all my issues were on the table my heart on my sleeve honestly open I was put out of the military because of the depression the stress what the war had done to me. I was not helped or even remotely to be the same as I was before. The effect of the issues were obvious and continued still to this day. I have PTSD severely, All my life has been run by things that make it very hard to deal with. I get into a debate or argument with someone I love and the events trigger worries fears nightmares. I get worked up or something hits deep I have issues functioning my mind runs rapidly I get anxiety and over worrying and depression come. I get a episode and that Lil one thing effects all around me puts me in danger and my whole life is up in the air. I am bi polar also so it's like a amplifier to my emotions feelings, that on thing agitates the other like a constant panic attack mixed in with negative outcomes I cut myself or wind up in the hospital in a petition from police, I am stuck hiding in a bathroom when confrontation or symptoms start. I have a problem remembering things, I forget what I'm doing s after starting my task that's important, I become depressed having suicidal thoughts, have tried to commit suicide on the account my emotions and expressions don't match. People think I'm sad or irritated when I'm happy or think I ignore them when I am just avoiding things that cause me to feel emotional pain or have any thoughts of things that I've been through. I get stressed out in public around people or driving in traffic. All the world's changed for me and my every will is to just live and survive, be a provider to my wife who I am married to now that's my everything the reason I'm alive. To be a father to my kids who are hers biologically but are mine for I love them they are to me inside my own. I stepped up to be there father. Mine was taken and never seen again since 2003. I was lucky enough to have a second chance at being a father to kids. I love them there my world. I have been frantically and with all my heart trying my very best to succeed at this life of mine. I go hard and stop at nothing most issues I'm able to figure out a way to make something happen. The finances I've been responsible and taken every measure of being a provider budgeting and paying bills on time. I don't over spend or just not pay attention to money going in or out. This payday my account was short not a little but a lot. $1,000 has been sent to a cash app card without authorization and permission. I asked the teller and they handed me a phone number which I called to set this issue straight. Thinking fraud is always protected against I made a claim for it, the incident was done through online banking, the account someone signed into with my password and username used the zelle option and sent money out of my account. Now that it's has been done I am out my money to pay my rent. I have no other choice or option to make it back for every chance is down at this moment. My car two weeks ago taken out by rains that cause my engine to hydro lock so it doesn't run. I can't get a loan on it or get cans or bottles fast enough on foot to make a dent on any effort of making it. So I am asking with my heart to please help me in this situation. I am in need of help and fast. I have my family and I love them. I'm old-school so I am the man I take care of all of everything even as a disabled vet. My every part of me is about my family taking care of them providing never failing them. I feel like I am lost and I don't want to lose our place or put my wife or kids through that. I never expected that my money in a bank could be taken like that. Nor that someone who illegally gets ur password username can get what has been taken thats never even met you. It's really sad, depressing! I'm not ashamed to ask for help! I am asking for I really need help I don't normally but maybe someone can help me that has the extra or understands what I'm going through. Please if you can help me, I'm a veteran just trying to do the best I can through what's sometimes seem impossible, but I have made it all this time as a disabled vet and If one time is all I have to ask for help then I'm not ashamed to ask, I just don't want to fail my wife or my kids, I've been through a lot and they've seen alot but nothing yet that I haven't been there super man on the other side of a problem. Thank you for your time and reading this. I appreciate it greatly all given in the future will be payed forward in some way, for I give to people who need help in all I relate to. Again thank you.
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Michael Coggan is the organizer of this fundraiser
