About the Author — Thomas Bowman, Jr.

Thomas Bowman, Jr. has never worn a uniform. He holds no rank, claims no service, and wants none of the credit that belongs to the men and women who did. Everything on this site was built by a son, out of honor for his family — because the Department of Veterans Affairs became the worst problem of his life.

The caretaker

By his count, five years a caretaker — and the VA helped with none of it.

It began in April 2019, when his mother, Julieanne Bowman, fell and never got out of bed again. She was a veteran’s wife, and to the VA that made her nobody: no help came. The rest of the medical system gave the family little more — a missed broken shoulder, an infection that nearly killed her in a hospital bed, a rehabilitation facility that discharged her into the family’s driveway days after promising a month. Church friends built the ramp. Her son got her into the house with no training and no help, and cared for her until she died on August 27, 2019.

Then it was his father’s turn. Thomas Bowman, Jr. is his father’s Durable Power of Attorney agent and Health Care Surrogate, his registered VA Family Caregiver (enrolled July 15, 2024 — in the unpaid tier), and the sole Personal Representative under his father’s will. In the worst month of his father’s case he worked 75 to 85 hours a week on his care: driving him to emergency rooms at midnight, fighting for his pain medication against a label in his chart, filing, calling, writing — more than two hundred letters into the VA and its overseers. Compensation received, across both parents: zero.

The builder

By trade he builds things that rank, sell, and answer back: websites, marketing systems, and automations, through his company, Bowman Web Services LLC, in Port Orange, Florida. It is the trade he plied for years on other people’s problems — a handyman company’s site, consumer fights against a home-services giant and a manufactured-housing empire (both settled or still standing in public), sites that document fraud, mold, and institutional failure wherever he has met it.

Those skills are the reason this site exists in this form. The VA’s failures are usually survived privately and buried quietly, because fighting them now takes tools most families do not have: records pulled and cross-checked, correspondence archived and counted, a case built like a publication. Tens of thousands of veterans cannot work the web the way this fight requires. They do not have a son with an AI. His father did — so the tools are being built in the open, for everyone’s families.

Why an enemy

He did not set out to fight the Department of Veterans Affairs. He set out to get his father a consult, a chair, a correct record, a bed — the things his father was promised in writing. What he got, across two years, was delay, conflated records, advocates who never called, and an approval mailed to his dead mother.

His own account of where that leaves him is short: the VA has made an enemy of his family — of him, specifically — and this site is what that looks like. Not a veteran. Not a lawyer. A son with a paper trail, a publishing platform, and no remaining interest in being quiet about it.

He writes the letters published on this site, signing as his father’s agent. Correspondence about the record: care@bowmanwebservices.com.