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Peter S. Mueller, M.D., PA, 601 Ewing Street, Suite B-3
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, Telephone: 609 924-xxxx

April/5/2002

Department of Veterans Affairs
Regional office
20 Washington place
Newark New Jersey 07102

Dear Sir:

I am trying to assist Mr. James Raab, Service number RA11761750 of 624 Forest Avenue, Laurence Harbor, NJ 08879 to obtain Veteran’s Benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs. Mr. Raab served in Vietnam as an SP4 in 1970 and was in the U. S. Army from 1968 to 1972. He suffered a head injury in 1970 and was incompetent since then. He was serving with the ASA in DaNang, South Vietnam and fell from a tower. The VA had called it “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” and he was hospitalized in 1995 at the Lyons VA Hospital. He has taken part in therapy at Lyons since.

In June 1998 he was brought to see me by a friend who was concerned about his totally disorganized life, which has been in ruins since 1970. I quickly realized that he had suffered a head injury and had a sever case of Post Traumatic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (See enclosed paper on such). He has the simple partial seizure type, which does not involve motoric seizures or loss of consciousness (See page 133 of the Chap. 7 enclosed). A brain SPECT scan has confirmed the diagnosis. He has responded well to the antiepileptic carbazepine and it helped. He still has hallucinations (olfactory, visual, auditory and tactile.) He is still disabled. Nevertheless, he has been denied service connected disability. I feel this is unfair and hope that you can correct this abandonment of the soldier injured in the service of his country.

Sincerely,
Peter S. Muller

Thank You, Jim Raab http://jimraab.blogspot.com/