John A. Evans
Please give me my life back!
(Is this the way a Veteran should be treated?)
"Don't Quit"
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're crossing seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you try to smile but you have to sigh,
When cares are pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must,
But, John A. Evans, don't you quit.
Don't give up, though the pace seem slow,
You may succeed with your next blow,
Success is failure turned inside out,
It's the difference between faith and doubt,
You may be close, though it seems so far.
It's hard to tell how close you really are.
So stick to the fight when you hardest hit
It's when things seems their worst,
That you must not quit.
Put a little love in your heart, and the world would be a better place for you and me.
If we make a mistake, we have to pay for it.
Why can’t our GOVERNMENT pay for their mistakes?
I don’t care who you are, you will have to pay.
Before you all judge me, please give me a chance to defend myself. Not when I am no longer living in this world. I have been fighting this issue for so long until I am weak. But I will continue as long as GOD gives me my health and strength, because GOD is my Savior, Witness, Judge and Jury. I am sorry about this letter being so long to read, but sometimes when you take the short road, it just might lead to a - Dead End. -
WILL OUR TROOPS BE TREATED FOR STRESS, ( WITH STRESS ) AS I AM, WHEN THEY ( RETURN HOME ? ) I gave my help and I fought when my country was in need,
But now I am in need of my country, for their help.
Please call me even if you can help me or not.
Thank you for having a heart
and for being so
KIND.
[ I LOVE YOU ALL ]
Please Call 202-248-6560
OR Fax Me SOON AT THE SAME #
Please Help
Us
When we were fighting in Vietnam,
it was no color. We was fighting
to keep one another
alive
Attn: To Whomever Can Help.
If you all can’t help me, would
you all Pray for me. Because
GOD does answer
PRAYER. Dear Sir
OR
Dear Madam,
My name is John A. Evans, according to the United States of America. I was declared dead by our government in July of 1994. And also four years later in 1998, I was still classified as deceased. I am still alive. I served my country in the United States Army from 1968 until 1970. I was sent to Vietnam during that time. I was also wounded in Vietnam. I am writing this letter, because I would like for some one to help stop this from happening to other people, and which I have been told that it has happened to them also. But the bad part of it is that, it almost took my life. I feel that no one should play with a persons life in this way. I had a ( 5 ) way by-pass surgery as the result of it. Nobody should be treated stress and also give stress. My disability is basic on a 100% post traumatic stress and shoulder wounds. Why, when a post-traumatic stress patient ( Veteran ) speaks out, It doesn’t mean anything. We are human just like everybody else. GOD created us all. The Federal Government has made a big mistake. I would like for them to fix it so that I can have my life back to normal.
It all started when my son was killed in July of 1994, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His name was John Patrick Logan. My son had a different last name, a different address, and a different Social Security number. I don’t see how the Social Security could have mistaken me for him. After my sons funeral, I went to my hometown in Marion, Alabama, where my mother lived during that time, to recuperate from his death for about a month. On September 1, 1994, I returned back to my home ( Fort Wayne, Indiana ) to check my mail box and pay my bills, and I had received a letter from the Veterans Administration expressing their sympathy for my death and please send the last two months checks back that I had received. Within two months, that should be enough time to know if your dog, or anybody is dead. I thought that it was just a misprint, so I went on about my business. I had bills to pay, so I went to my bank to withdraw money out of my account, So that I could pay my bills. My Social Security and V.A. checks was setup for direct deposit. And my son had just passed away and which they already knew that. N. B. D. Bank ( which is now call Bank One ) informed me that my account had been closed when I got there. The Social Security and Veteran Administration had contacted them to let them know that I was deceased.
I began to get stressed out, because I still had to pay my bills and they were telling me that I had no money, and my account was closed. After that I went to The Three River Credit Union, to borrow some money to pay my bills. I had two loans with them any way. So the credit union ran a credit check on me and they said that they could not loan a dead man any money. And the Judge had stated to me, that If I were to come back in his court room for missing any child support that he would have them to lock me up. At this time I was beginning to panic. I couldn’t believe that this was happening to me. So I thought that my best chances was to go to the STATE CAPITAL ( Indianapolis, Indiana ),[ I could have called, but I needed my check then, because I was afraid ] ( which was a hundred and some miles away ) so I went to the main office of the Veterans Administration. I had a talk with my power of attorney ( D. A. V. Representatives ). He said that it would take about three or four weeks before he can straighten this situation out. And I said, why can’t you go down the hall and have them to print me a new check. You see that I am alive. He declined to do that, even after I told him what the Judge would do to me. I HAD MY HEART-ATTACK THE SAME DAY AFTER I LEFT THERE. [ I had already told them in the past that the stress that they had been putting me through, that they was going to keep on until they give me a heart-attack, and which they did.] And now at this point, I was really getting stressed out. I didn’t know how I was going to pay my Child Support and keep from going to jail. I came back to Fort Wayne, Indiana, because I didn’t have any choice.
When I arrived back at home, I started sweating, couldn’t even walk and started having pain in my chest. The pain in my chest was like someone putting weight on my chest. I was hurting so bad, until I called my brother and I ask him to take me to the hospital. When he was taking me to the hospital, he ran every stop light that he approached. He also ask me if I wanted to go to the V. A. Hospital. I said no, I told him, you know how they did me in year of 1991. { I don’t have that much time. } Park View Hospital is next door to the V. A. Hospital any way. So we arrived at Park View Hospital and they started giving me Nitro pills right away. The next thing That I remember was that I woke up and the doctors were pounding on my chest. They told me that I just had a Heart-Attack. They also told me that the bad news is that they can’t do surgery until my blood pressure goes down. I spent about three weeks in the hospital and then I had a five-way bypass heart surgery. Now I had more bills ( $70,000.00 ) with no help from the Social Security or The Veterans Administrations. Because I didn’t go to the V. A. Hospital first. My doctor stated that if I had waited for a second later, then it wouldn’t have been any use bringing me there. That’s what they told my brother. The V.A. Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana didn’t have the proper equipment to do heart surgery anyway. They would have sent me there anyway or I would have died. After I got out the hospital, Park View Hospital filed a lawsuit against me for my bills. I went to court and I told the Judge that I felt that The Social Security Administration and The Veteran Administration were the ones that cause all the stress. We Veterans have feelings too. Without our veterans, we would not have a country to call our own. ( AND RIGHT NOW , I AM AFRAID TO GO TO ANY V. A. HOSPITAL AFTER THIS HAPPENED TO ME, AND I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO FEEL THAT WAY.) Everybody has been telling me to contact Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Mark Souder, but they told me that it is nothing that they can do. That is why I left Fort Wayne, Indiana to try and get help, somewhere else. I even gave Congressman Souder my records and video tape when I was on T.V., Channel 33 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and other documents on this issue with my own hands. Because we were on the same Television program at that time. Which was recorded from somewhere else, but was shown on T. V. from Fort Wayne, Indiana Main Library. I think that they were the ones that cause or created the heart-attack by declaring me dead for no reason at all. So they should be the ones to be responsible for the doctors and hospital bills, and you don’t treats stress and give stress too. The judge had to contact The Veterans Administrations and they finally accepted the responsible for the hospital bills. And then it took them a year and a half before they would pay the hospital bills. And even longer for the doctor bills. By them waiting so long to pay the bills, I had started back having chest pains, I thought that I was having another heart-attack each time. After that happen my credit was still bad, and I was still declared dead. I was forced into bankruptcy. I lost my house, ( IT WAS 18 YEARS OLD ), my car and truck, ( THEY WERE 3 YEARS OLD ). I lost everything and almost my life. When I got wounded in VIETNAM, the pain and suffering was not as near as painful as of what I am going through now. Do you think a Veteran should be treated like this? I applied for a loan 4 years later after this happened and Tel A Track, “ A Credit Reporting Agency Nationwide “ In 1998 and they said that I was forcing a dead man Social Security Number. As of 12-21-1998, I was still declared dead. As a result of it, I have lost everything in the Bankruptcy. I tried to keep my car, but they wouldn’t let me. I have nothing left to show. I am hopeing that some day I will be able to publish a book on this, and I feel that the title should be “ THE WAYS THAT A VETERAN CAN BE TREATED “ for no reason at all. It is July of 2005 and I have [ and ] still is suffering dearly from this dreadful event that was put on me. My credit is still mess up, and I am living everyday to stop this madness. I have never heard of suing The Federal Government, but I am going to contentious to seek JUSTICE on this tragic incident until I die, and for my rights to be alive. How can you sue anyone when a person can not have his day in court? In the newspapers there in Fort Wayne, Indiana stated that I did sue. And that is not true. I did file and had a court date, but when I did appear on that day, the secretary stated to me that the judge is busy and they wouldn’t let me go in there. And I just had a heart-attack and I couldn’t stand the pressure and also a possibility of going to jail at that time, so I didn’t have no choice but to leave, ( THAT WAS HOW I WAS TREATED ). The United States Government has no rights to considers me legally dead, when I am still alive and with no proof. How can they declare anyone dead without a Death Certificate? Why was it taking so long to go into The Master Social Security Death File and correct their mistake? As I said before, now we are now in the month of Oct. of 2004, and I am still fighting to have my life back like everybody else got theirs and it have been over nine years, and I am still sufferance from their mistake. I have had more pain and suffering within the last nine years in the United States, than I had the one year in Viet-Nam after getting wounded. I was a volunteer van driver for the V. A. Hospital. I took V. A. Patients from Fort Wayne, Indiana V.A. hospital to the Indianapolis, Indiana Veterans Hospital, which is on West 10th Street Back and forth. I was also a volunteer for the Fort Wayne Police Department. I have served my country and I don’t deserve to be treated like this.
I have been on television stations, newspapers, radio programs and all kinds of news media shows to tell my story. And justices still haven’t been serve. And I am hoping that this will not continual happen to other peoples. I feel that I should be compensated for my losses because I didn’t do anything wrong. Please consider this letter as a plea for help, from a living person fighting for his rights to get his life back. I have talk to other peoples and some of them have stated that the reason that they feel that I can’t get no help is because of the color of my skin. But please remember that GOD made us all. And the ones that have power in office, and the ones that we voted for, ( In The State Of Indiana ) where it all happen at, said that there is nothing that they could do for us and me. They also said that they can’t change any laws. Is there a law that says, a person can be declared dead and be put in a predicament of losing their life and also that they can loses everything that they own? ( IS THERE’S A LAW STATED THAT ? ) Is there a law that stated that you can mistreat a person when they have not did anything wrong? Please, if there is anything you all can do to help, it would be deeply appreciate. This is a case of affirmative action. ( Thank you all so much for your help. ) I have suffered dearly for no reason at all. GOD will take me when HE’s ready. Seen like the ones that we voted for in office, really don’t care.
I will also be traveling in and out of difference states to seek help, because Indiana will not. But I will make Washington, DC my home until I die unless JUSTIVES be serve. I also hope that I can fine somebody that will help us all VETERANS, no matter what color that we are claim to be. Please don’t forget our Veterans, and our troops over seas and the ones that have made it back home,because this could happen to anybody & you too. [ THANK YOU SO MUCH. ] I was not good enough to be given a thread mill test at the V.A. Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the year or 1991. Cost too much or they didn’t feel like doing it! But I was good enough to fight in the Vietnam War and also got wounded over there for our country. I made SGT. within a year and three months time, I have two Bronze Stars, Purple-Heart and many other medals. But they don’t mean that much to me, because of the ways that I am been treated. I don’t care about them following me, trailing me, entering my home when I’m not there, telephone tap and watching me like I have done something wrong. As of today Feb. 2004, they have taken my gun permit for no reason, I guess it will make it more easy for them to kill me . They also threaten to take my check away from me by the V. A. Talking about you can’t manage your check . I am paying my bills, my rent, and buying my food, clothes and paying my tithe in church. What else I supposed to do with it. I guess that I am just a motherless child. I will NOT do nothing illegal to the best of my knowledge. Everything I do will be within the law and also within GOD will and that is a fact. So please give me my life back. When I speak that I will CONTINUE SEEKING JUSTICE until I die, it only mean that, until I fine somebody that will help me, and other Veterans, and other peoples that are in the same situation. And I will say again, I WILL CONTINUETO SEEKING JUSTICE UNTIL I DIE, IF THAT WHAT IT TAKES. Thank about it, because it could happen to you or someone that you care about. Share your heart. PLEASE, I BEG YOU! I will never forget the ones that tried to help me. I am only trying to get back what they cause me to lose. If this situation were to happen to you or someone you know,or love ones for no reason at all, would you try to get back what is yours or theirs? Please ask your self that question for me. And let me know. If you has any kind of feeling in your heart and beleave in GOD, your answer woud be (YES). MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL. [ I WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING UNTIL I DIE AND HOPE & PRAY THAT IT WILL HELP SOMEBODY, EVEN IF I DON’T LIVE LONGER ENOUGH TO SEE IT. ] Hurt, is a pain that nobody knows about but you. And I have had mine for nine years and some. And look like I will have these pains until I die. No matter how many tears you shed, the pain is still there and nobody there to share them with you but GOD. LORD, take my hand and lead me, able me to go to the MOUNTIAN-T0P and see THE PROMISE LAND. PLEASE LORD HELP US. I am asking all Veterans and to the Public, please come to Washington,DC if you can to help us fight for Justices and our RIGHTS. I will also be a attending Bible College there to, with the Help of the GOOD LORD.
With Love,
John A. Evans This is my Dream:
I will never forget my Pastor ( Bishop White is in heaven now ), which he had earn the name Bishop before he pass. He had his own radio program every Sunday morning, and Bishop White would always speak these words. { "THE TRUTH, SHALL MAKE YOU FREE" } My book will some what be basic on John 8:32 " Ye shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free". My book will be out soon, because those that have comdemn me, I want them to know the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH so help me GOD.
As of the words that Doctor Martin Luther King stated: "I HAVE A DREAM." I am so glad that I had the opportunity to march with Dr. King and I also had the chance to hold his hand while marching in the State of Alabama. ( He was in good shape, because he really could walk and seem like that he never got tired. )I was a small kid during that time, back in the 60s. My mother march so much until one of her heel on her shoe broke off, and she turn around and broke the other off and kept on marching. I also went to jail for being a part of the march. And now I really know what it mean to have a dream and to be free. He gave his life for that DREAM and GOD knows that I am willing to do the same. I am afraid that after, or if I get my dream back it will be to late, just like it was with my check. It was after I had the heart-attack. Why we have to wait until something happen before we do something about it? You know it is bad, when you tell somebody about the pain and hurt that they are giving you and they continuous doing it anyway, until you become powerless or helpless.
The good LORD love us all,
please don’t make him more angry than HE already is. |
