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At All Veterans Center, our vision is to create a community where mental health is a top priority and individuals can access the resources they need to achieve optimal well-being.

What is a Veteran? 

 He is the cop on the beat who spent months in awful heat sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account lazy children and gang members into Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors; Teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals or meals they could have been given, or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".     source:) www.cityofnoblesville.org