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New Mexico Veterans Integration Center helps vets.

As he does daily, Keith Mager brings in the U.S. flag at sunset at the New Mexico Veterans Integration Center.
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Handmade signs and a U.S. Marine Corps sticker adorn a room door at the New Mexico Veterans Integration Center. Housed in a former motel, the center on East Central Avenue has rooms for 75 veterans and a long waiting list to get in.
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Center resident Anthony "Surfer" Ladson works on a computer in his room. He combined parts from several old computers to make one that works, which he traded to a fellow resident.
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Patrick Baisley (left) watches the sunset and chats with Anthony "Surfer" Ladson on a patio at the New Mexico Veterans Integration Center. Ladson said that, despite the gaps in their ages and their different races, Baisley has taught him a lot about life and "being humble." Baisley is widely recognized as the center's most-decorated veteran.
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