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ARMY
                                                                                                   VIETNAM


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             and when PTSD does occur, the VA may have no      When you have the chance to thank a veteran for
             record of their service. This happened to Les, and   his or her service, remember the sacrifice they have
             he had to fight the system for 25 years before he   made so that we can enjoy our freedoms.  Service
             got the treatment he needed and deserved.  He was  is defined as the action of helping or doing work
             not going to let this happen to others. His “service”  for someone.  For Les Beaty and thousands of
             became educating and working with veterans to     servicemen and women, it may mean the humble
             enable them to get the help they needed or may    duty of a genuine hero.
             someday need.

             Today, Les leads Alcoholics Anonymous meetings,    “Les Beaty is a veteran who never leaves another
             is a member of the Disabled American Veterans,     veteran behind. He is always seeking ways to help
             the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Military      them and to recognize them for their service. He is
             Order of the Purple Heart. He is a charter member   truly one of Lubbock's veteran gems.”
             of the City of Lubbock’s Veterans Advisory
             Committee, working toward a new Veteran’s          Steve Oien (fellow veteran and Purple Heart
             Court and a super clinic in Lubbock and the first   recipient)
             ever veterans’ clinic in Clovis, New Mexico.


















































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