About This Site
Why this site exists
DearDougCollins.com exists because every private channel was tried first.
The Bowman family sent the emails, filed the casework, called the hotlines, and collected the case numbers — Senate casework, the White House VA Hotline, AskVA, the patient advocates, an acknowledgment from the Secretary’s own Office of Client Relations promising that VHA leadership would follow up. What came back was acknowledgment, redirection, and silence. The one thing that ever actually moved — a dying veteran’s admission to a VA nursing home — moved because of a chance face-to-face meeting with one decent man, not because of any channel the VA operates.
So the letters go public now. This site publishes open letters to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the documented cases behind them, and a running count of how long each letter goes unanswered. It criticizes a cabinet secretary’s job performance in his official capacity, on a documented record — and it gives every family carrying the same weight a place to put their case next to this one.
Who publishes it
Published by Bowman Web Services LLC, 2280 La Flor Lane, Port Orange, FL 32129 · (386) 384-8445 · bowmanwebservices.com
The site was founded by Thomas Bowman, Jr., of Port Orange, Florida — son, Durable Power of Attorney agent, Health Care Surrogate, and registered VA Family Caregiver of Thomas Alan Bowman, Sr., the veteran in the founding case. He is not a veteran; he is one of the thousands of family caretakers the VA’s system quietly runs on.
How the record is kept
- Primary documents first. Dates, case numbers, and the VA’s own records carry the stories. Allegations are attributed to whoever made them.
- Consent controls publication. Families choose: their name, anonymous, or record-only. Nothing publishes beyond the choice made.
- Identifiers are withheld. No Social Security numbers, VA file or member IDs, medical record numbers, or full dates of birth appear on this site.
- Corrections are part of the record. If something here is wrong, tell us and it will be fixed in the open. Corrections and takedown requests: care@bowmanwebservices.com — see Legal.