E-mail President George W Bush

[jamescripps2]

If you send a respectfully written, and well worded letter by e-mail you will get a response. I got a letter from the White House after two weeks and my regional office called me to respond to my complaints as directed by the office of the president. Then I recieved a letter from the RO saying that my letter to the president had caused a review of my C file and that they had to respond back to the president with an answer. It was the first time that the RO has ever called me! Of course they will probabaly loose my file when the review is done with. I also sent the same letter Via e-mail to five congressmen and the Secretary of The Department of Veterans Affairs. I do know that the Secretary and at least one congressman responded to the RO. You know what they say about the squeekey wheel? Time will tell. I think that after more than two years of fighting the Varo, I was able to smile about it for a little while. They must have been getting one of those letters every day for awhile, HA HA

Here is the e-mail address, please use it with all of the respect for the office of the President that it deserves.

"George W. Bush" <president@whitehouse.gov>

[Pete53]

I sent a email almost same as yours to same address and got good results in 1996.

[jamescripps2]

Pete, was your response and result favorable to your claim?

[Berta]

Pres Clinton got a letter from me griping about the way my RO was ignoring my evidence.

He sent me another Presidential Certificate as a reply.

Hillary -as my state Senator has always responded to me directly by email or a signed letter regarding vets issues-

I think alot depends on who actually gets any letter to the President or Congressman , Senator etc.

Schumer responded to me directly too-

One thing to keep in mind-the President, our Senators and COngressmen/women- etc-

really have little control over the VA claims process.

They cannot award a claim- medical evidence does that.

Still-sometimes it takes being the squeaky wheel to get anywhere.

My claim might have been transferred to the BVA because of a letter I wrote to the Inspector General right before this transfer occurred.

I got my claim back-

and my IG letter contained facts that involve all state veterans and widows with claims at this RO.

I think sometimes this stuff backfires on us-

I wrote to Nicholson on the Blue Water issue as soon as he got his new desk- Blue Water has nothing at all to do with my claims.

Next thing I know my claim was held up because he sent my letter to the RO-it was with the congressional liason guy -

and they had to reply to it- so I withdrew the letter-so they would put my claim back into the queue again.

What happened to the WW II vet in NY was unusual and Rep Hall was aggressively involved in helping him.

I hope your contact gets good results.

[Pete53]

I sent my email shortly before the 1996 election out of frustration as my claim had stagnated for over 5 years. Within a couple of weeks I was granted a Hearing at the VARO in Waco and after the Hearing I was awarded 100% P&T within 3 business days.

Later after I had copies of my "C" File I found a letter to the VA from Presidents Clinton Administrative Assistant telling the VA to move on my claim and report the results back to her office. Do I think my email helped my claim? You bet I do.

I also got a personally typewritten letter from President Bill Clinton thanking me for my service a few weeks later. I dount that he typed it but it was typed with an old fashioned typewriter and signed by him in real ink.

[Testvet]

I have to admit I did the same thing after years of being jerked around by the RO, when I wrote President Bush they awarded me 50% in May 2005, I appealed at as a low ball for PTSD and they had still denied my cardiovascular issues, Senator Craig caught them lying to his office and me in Oct 2005, then I got mad and wrote VP Cheney as he was in Ford's WH during the human experiments in 1974 and when they were stopped in 1975, Rumsfeld as Sec of Def I felt they both held some personal liability for all the disabled vets from the drug and chemical weapons experiments. After writing Cheney I got 100% for PTSD but they still denied my cardiovascular problems so the appeals continued.

Out of the blue on Wednesday Congressman Joe Wilson R SC02 had one of his staffers contact me about my problems with the VA, I last talked to them in August 2005 when he asked me why didn't the Army use animals for the experiments and then did nothing to help. I gave him a copy of the IMO the Doctor from Edgewood Arsenal wrote showing the Nexus from my SC PTSD and all the cardiovascular issues I have been dealing with for the past 15 years and the relationships from the stress of living with PTSD for more than 3 decades and my 7 heart attacks and the strokes and failed stents. I wonder what happens now, as far as I know I am still in line for a BVA hearing on it

sometimes writing helps and others it doesn't

[john999]

It is not the actual decision that kills us, but the endless waiting. If a letter can speed that up then that is good. I wrote Principi and got a good response. I was amazed on that one.