Sept 9 08 letter to US Congressman Jerry Lewis

September 9, 2008

From:
Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68 (909) 866-9310
PO Box 120707
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

To:
Mr. Craig Curtis
VA Hospital
11201 Benton Street
Loma Linda, CA 92357

Copy of this letter is also being sent to US Congressman Jerry Lewis.

Dear Mr. Curtis and Congressman Lewis:

Mr. Curtis, I was given your name by Loma Linda’s VA Public Affairs Director Annie Tuttle. She said to write you in order to receive information using the Freedom Of Information Act.

I want this letter to be my formal request using FOIA to have you send to me the VA police report and copies of their daily log and any other written materials the Loma Linda VA Police and Security Service may have regarding my Aug 25, 2008 written complaint against VFW volunteer “Services Officers” Curtis Hobbs. I gave my written complaint to VA Officer Brent Carter #3160, and talked about the Hobbs complaint with Sergeant Lymar L. Pratt also on Aug 25, 2008 just moments after the incident occurred.

Mr. Craig Curtis, I would also like sent to me the names, dates and addresses of anyone requesting a copy of my Aug. 25, 2008 written complaint report. I gave copies of the report to VA Security officer Carter, Ken Johnson VA Patient Advocate and Public Affairs Director Annie Tuttle.

Also send me the information about any calls or requests to have officer’s come to the area of Hobbs’s Office on Aug 25, 2008 around 10:10 a.m. I make such a request because Officer Carter and another Officer where at the location almost as the incident with Hobbs was occurring. Hobbs was using a portable earphone and another man with a portable earphone may have been communicating with Security Services as the incident was happening. If either Hobbs or the other man with the portable earphone failed to inform me Security was called shows they where provoking a quarrel that otherwise could have been stopped.

Congressman Lewis, requesting your assistance in finding out if Hobbs or this other man also with a portable ear phone called security. Your simple request for an internal investigation could stop future psychological distress to other Veterans who must deal with such VA employees or volunteer “Services Officers”.

Congressman Lewis, did you know that volunteer Services Officers like Hobbs are treated differently then VA hospital employees when it comes to security investigations and enforcement? That was an obvious impression I got after talking with Officer Carter and Sergeant Pratt on Aug. 25, 2008. Please look into this apparent safety discrepancy.

As I understand it people known as Services Officers working or volunteering in the VA Hospitals for the VFW, American Legion, Purple Heart and some other organizations are NOT the reasonability of the VA hospital as regular hospital employees are. In my case complaint the reasonability is Annie Tuttle’s. That is what Annie Tuttle told me in her office on the afternoon of Aug. 25, 2008 about 3:30 pm.

Congressman Lewis, I’m requesting you give ALL VA Hospital Public Affairs Directors, like Annie Tuttle, authority to give mandatory monthly drug tests to All VA volunteers.

News media, Please Help Congressman Lewis:
I’m requesting the news media help Congressman Lewis get more money to enforce better oversight of volunteers at VA hospitals.

Note: Recent data Aug. 2008 shows Oregon troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to die of suicide than in combat.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=121926671416052100


Sincerely,
Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68
http://www.blogger.com/profile/12877379209901347346

CC:
US Representative Jerry Lewis
1150 Brookside Ave., Suite J-5
Redlands, CA 92373

VA Hospital, Annie Tuttle

Senator Barbara Boxer

*Senate Committee Members of Veterans’ Affairs, http://veterans.senate.gov/public/

*Senator Daniel Kahikina, Chairman

*Senator Burr, Suite 508

*Senator John D. Rockefeller IV

*Senator Patty Murray

*Senator Sherrod Brown

*Senator Jon Tester

*Senator Jim Webb

Veterans for Common Sense, @ EPIC
611 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, No. 132
Washington, DC 20003

Los Angeles Times, City Desk
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Copies of this letter sent to other newspapers nation wide.