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ARMY
VIETNAM

LUBBOCK

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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