President Barack Obama

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC20500

Dear Mr. President;

I wrote your wife over 6 months ago and begged for her assistance concerning my ordeal with the Veterans Administration. I did not receive a reply from her so I must add her to the list of government officials and civilians that have completely abandon me. My question is how many government workers and civilians must I beg to help me when incompetence played a crucial part in the decision making?

I am now forced to live in a 1972 Winnebago and all that I had and once owned is no more. I have begged all my Congressmen and Senators in the State of California for help and every one of them put me off or told me about tradition or simply they just did not care. I wrote many other like Sheila Jackson Lee from Texas, Steve Israel from New York, Peter Welch from Vermont, Lloyd Doggett from Texas, Steve Buyer from Indiana, and I can go on and on from Bush to McCain and the Clintons. I have written foundations and even the King of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Not one human being even offered me a dollar to buy a sandwich. If I did something stupid they would put over one thousand bullets in my body and find every charge could be found to insure I was the worst human in the history of the United States. I have been around long enough to know that our government can be very corrupted.

Sir, I know you have your hands full and I can’t at this point take another rejection from my leaders but what I would remind you there is no greater gift than a person that is willing to put his or her life on the line for there country. So I would ask that you and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs tour the Regional Centers and let them all know how serious you are about the care and welfare of this nation Veterans. I am sorry to say that you will have to fire some people to make it very clear that the workers will be accountable for there actions. The centers were moving a bit when you and the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs came in but everything is now back to normal.

You should request and demand a temporary ten-cent federal gas tax not for payroll but to get these Veterans taken care of. My request and appeal to you is because what they have done to me. I am so angry and hurt that after I was told to file a brief and now I receive a letter that they want another extension. How dare they play with peoples lives. The problem is that you have government clerks and attorneys that have been in these cushion jobs for years and there is no due process and no feelings involved. They will make, find and delay with no regard to the situation of the soldier. The Bible speaks of the last day where people’s hearts will grow cold and after writing and begging for help from well over one hundred people I would have been better off to shoot myself in the head. Who would care?

I will not ask you nor I need a reply but I will send you a copy of my brief so you will see that from 2003 to now how I have been treated. From losing my records to just plain lying I have been through it all. I am now homeless and I’m trying to send my son back to his mother but he does not want to go. He has been with me for over four years and things are very, very hard right now. My government, friends and now my family have abandoned me.

I would also ask that all of my representatives in California receive a letter or verbal reprimand.  Not one of them followed up and asked if I was getting the help I needed from my local Congressman. I begged for help from them because I found out that my letters and files that were sent to them were being shredded. I have copies of all of the letters that they sent and the way they fixed my problem was to put me off to someone else and hope I go away. If I write another congressman outside my area there should be a follow-up system to insure I get the support I need. It is only a Congressional courtesy and tradition not a fact of law that if I ask for help outside my district that they should not be of the hook. They still have a responsibility to act regardless.

My family has a long history of serving our country my last uncle died about a year ago. I am the only one who served twenty years in the US Army. You are my last hope so please help me.

Please take care of our Veterans Mr. President.

SSG Jerry L Kelley

US Army Retired

kavcs@aol.com

Vet. App. No. 08-2088

7/10/2009 

PS: I will keep you in prayer because I know most of our leaders are only concerned about self. They will act like they care just like Jesse Jackson. If there is a photo opt they will be there.  They all allowed Bush to steal billions of dollars for this country and they all hid and now you are president they are running around like a pack of wolves waiting for you to make a mistake. I say you should have them all investigated.