Photo and document capture
Save proof, letters, equipment delays, appointment notes, and home-care records in one organized place.
Tell Your Story
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A safer way for veterans and families to document what happened.
The story tool is coming soon. The goal is simple: help veterans and caregivers gather photos, record videos, keep journals, and turn scattered experiences into a clear timeline.
Video and journal entries
Record what happened in plain language while details are still fresh.
AI-assisted timeline
Turn notes into a chronological story, with dates, unresolved issues, and follow-up questions.
Public-safe story drafts
Prepare a version that can be shared without exposing private medical, claim, or identity details.
Until the app is ready, do not submit Social Security numbers, VA file numbers, medical record files, or private claim details through public forms. Privacy comes first.
Tell it now
You do not have to wait for the tool.
Use this form today. One intake serves the whole network: tell us what happened, choose how your story may be used, and your choice is honored exactly as given. Do not include Social Security numbers, VA file numbers, or medical record files — a clear account of what happened, with dates, is what the record needs.
The whistleblower lane
If you work — or worked — inside the system, read this first.
Do not submit from a work computer or a work network. Do not include classified material or any patient’s identifying information. You do not have to give your name: choose the whistleblower category on the form below and leave the contact fields blank if you prefer.
Whistleblower tips are never published raw. They go to verification and to the legal-protection route first. If you need protection before you say anything here, go straight to the people whose work that is: the Government Accountability Project and the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP).
The medical examiner lane
Did the medical examiner fail your family?
Did the medical examiner decline jurisdiction over your loved one’s death, sit on the case while your family waited, refuse the autopsy or botch it — or lose tissue or evidence that can never be recovered? Did the office stonewall you when you asked, in writing, what happened?
That failure is a story this record takes in its own right: choose The medical examiner failed us in the form below and put it on the record, under the same permissions you set for any story here. Examiner patterns are built from sourced stories and documents — never from one anecdote alone.
Every submission is read by a person and routed by category. A story is published ONLY on the written permission given in this form — with your name, anonymously, or not at all, exactly as you chose. If you have documents you want to share, reply to our acknowledgment email and we’ll send you a secure way to send them — never email documents with Social Security numbers.
Privacy: what you send here stays in this project’s own records system and is used only to work your story as you directed. We are not a law firm and this is not legal advice.
The same account can also go on the public accountability record: the sister intake at DearDougCollins.com, Tell Your Story, collects documented VA failures from veterans and families there, under the same rule — your words, your choice of how they are used.