 I thought I was going to be stuck there, I thought everyone forgot me, that it kind of broke me. I'm learned completely, you know, I felt my country, I didn't want to, I didn't want to be here anymore. I hated myself, after a year and a half I started self-medicating, and it took probably four years ago for me to say, you know, commit suicide, take my own life. He was brought into the clinic area I was at, and a nurse very much wanted him to get involved. He needed a lot of help. Adam had very long hair, and he leaned forward and kind of hid himself behind his hair, and didn't, wasn't very into the whole rec therapy idea. I talked about whitewater rafting, and snowboarding out in Colorado, and he was like, what is that? That makes no sense, but I'll give you one chance. And as we're going down the river, I can see Adam kind of coming out of a shell. He starts talking to other people, getting involved with what's going on, high-five and getting this group stuff, and we go through our day and then he's helping, you know, helping to get his leg back on, and getting a wheelchair to get people back out and helping us create the raft up, and it changed him, you know. The water hit him in the face, and he had fun again. He knew he was allowed to have fun, and then he said, so what was that snowboard trip you talked about? I said, well, Winter Sports Clinic, we're going to Colorado for a week, and we'll snowboard it, it'll be great. He's like, well, I don't really know how, but I think I'd like to go. We came here to the Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass, and my life changed forever. A veteran has to be ready to accept the recovery process, and I wasn't ready, and then I came here and opened my eyes and made me ready. I took all the stuff that I've learned at the Winter Sports Clinic, and I've taken it home and applied it to my own recovery process, but also where I can help other veterans. All right, today we're going in to the Red Call here at the Hurts of Woody Williams VAMC, and we're going to speak for patient-centered care, and it's experiencing the veteran walking out of the veteran's shoes. Adam does our patient-centered care program and speaks for us to realize what our veterans go through when they serve, and in his case, what he endured, but Adam also helps us through our rec therapy program of going out and helping his fellow veterans to become incorporated back into their civilian life. We're just giving you a call, double-checking to make sure everything's good. I did the one-on-one cancelling. I used to drive until I moved, but I drive about two hours or 15 minutes one way, three days a week, and I would do that to go meet veterans, walk them through the process like OEFOI veterans. Some Vietnam veterans that were just terrified of the system heard horror stories. Well, I'm a DAV member that volunteers at a VA. I make sure, as a DAV member, that they get exactly what they go for. Just becoming a DAV member, Adam's been very active as a member, as a volunteer, and just as a good veteran in the community. He gives back. He's compassionate, and he loves what he gets to do day in and day out. He's accumulated nearly 3,800 hours at the VA in Huntington, West Virginia, and prior to becoming a volunteer for DAV, he's achieved a little more than 5,000 hours. Adam's also spoken on our PSAs as it relates to how DAV has changed his life and what Adam wants to do to change others. My victory has just experienced in life. Support more victories for veterans. Go to DAV.org. This one is my favorite because it shows how upset, depressed, and hopeless he looks. And then in this one, there's a picture of him and his son, and it shows the light that's back in him. To watch him smile again is beyond anything that I could have ever hoped for. He is kind, he is humble, he is an amazing man, and I can't even begin to describe all the things that he has done for others that nobody even sees, nobody knows about. He's able to participate and watch his grandson grow up, where at one point he didn't think he would ever do that. Gray thing, coal man, gray dance, that makes me a grandpa. He is so deserving of any ounce of credit that anybody gives him and he does it humbly with a smile on his face. I am extremely proud of Adam and I cannot be more proud.