Dear Vice President Johnson:

A while ago you generously promised to look after an appeal of a VA decision for me.  i do not have access to help of any kind.  Therefore I am deeply grateful for you goodness in helping me.  it should not have been necessary for me to appeal this VA decision.  But VA is a shooly arbitrary agency, and all consideration has to be forced.  More so from Montgomery (Ala.) VA.  All I am asking is that my appeal be shown "PROPER CONSIDERATION."

Dear Vice President Johnson,

6 Oct. 1963

Your helper, Mr. Ivan Sinclair sent me notice from Mr. Cyrill F. Brickfield, Chief Benefits Director, Central VA office. The attitude of VA , as reflected by Mr. Brickfield,

Remains unchanged after almost 20 years. VA badly needs to be forcibly divested of its arbitrary presumption of ownership of what it was given to administer. This would establish a healthy trend in government.

It takes just about an act of congress to force VA to administer is responsibilities properly. It is incredible that veterans must force every consideration form VA. This is a wholly arbitrary attitude of VA must be changed.

Dothan Alabama

June 7, 1965

Dear Editor,

Because I had the guts and gall to fight V.A. for my people given rights and benefits, a few brutal individuals in V.A. tried to destroy me. I live in deathly fear of V.A.

Veterans need some agency or court that is not under the thumb of V.A. For more than 19 years I tried to get an appeal adjudicated honestly. The Board of Veterans Appeal turned it down again last year.

8 October, 1962

Dear President Kennedy,

Thanks to your interest, today I received belatedly the French Croix de guerre with palm and the French Fourragere, Belgian fouragere and the Netherlands orange lanyard. I knew I had some foreign combat awards due me but just never took the trouble to find out about them. Thank you very much for seeing about these. They are nice. U.S> Congressman George Andrews is seeing about the DSC for me. I was recommended for the DSC, our second highest combat award twice, once in Sicily and Normandy. Thanks to Congressman Andrews I am certain to receive one DSC. I have enough medals. Giving me more medals now, later, or never can't change a thing sir. All my deeds are done. I did them willingly, voluntarily, as the record will plainly reveal.

20 January1963

The Honorable George Andrews

United States Congressman

Washington 25 D.C.

Dear Congressman Andrews,

The election is over, my vote has been cast but even so your prolonged silence is incomprehensible. Silence can speak louder than words I think I get the message.

Apparently my government has abandoned me to the tender mercies of such men as Kendrick and such agencies as V.A. All my deeds are done are in the book. But I still bleed. Not from enemy wounds but from the knowledge that I have been "Used" in war and politics. It is a most distressing bit of knowledge.

Dear President Kennedy

18 April 1962

I have written to you many times about my difficulties with V. A. And Mr. A.W. Farmer

Washington V.A. has confirmed your generous expression of “interest and Care” in my case for which I am sincerely thankful. Sir in my honest opinion V.A. is the sorriest spectacle of government in action, in the whole span of human experience. Why?

          Route 4  Box 457

          Dothan, Alabama

            18  Dec.  1962 

Mr. Neil R. Smart, Manager

Montgomery (Ala.) V.A.

     It took me two months to get a simple hospital application form from your agency.  I want to impress one thing upon you.  I am an American Citizen; I am a combat disabled veteran.  My Veterans' benefits as provided by Law, are identical to my civil and human rights.

Dear President Kennedy,

18 April 1962

I have written to you many times about my difficulties with V. A. And Mr. A.W. Farmer

Washington V.A. has confirmed your generous expression of "interest and Care" in my case for which I am sincerely thankful. Sir in my honest opinion V.A. is the sorriest spectacle of government in action, in the whole span of human experience. Why?