 I remember being inside the gun hospital. I raced the sheets up and looked. This is when it dawned to me that I had no legs, that I had lost them. And this feeling of, what am I going to do? It just scared me. My name is Armando Albarón. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I joined the service back in 1966. I got drafted right out of high school. The way I got hurt was we were going through the jungles and all of a sudden we heard explosions. And that's when I got hit. I think the moment that I believed that things were going to work out for me was when I started school. When I got the bachelor's degree I really said, man I did it. Now I can go forward and try to find jobs. I knew it was going to be a challenge. DAV was the one that told me exactly what they could do for me. When I got out, they put in the application, sent it in and I got my disability. Right after that DAV helped me get my home, get my automobile and they also helped me with my medical. They assessed me with prosthetics. If it wasn't for DAV I wouldn't have had anything. I am a veteran. My victory was getting my benefits and a good education.