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There are rooms at trade shows where people simply just check their phones.
And then there are rooms where the future of an industry hangs in the air. At the Small Business Administration breakfast during the LBM Expo, it was the second kind. Builders leaned forward. Yard owners stopped whispering. Manufacturers put their coffee cups down. When Lisa Shimkat, Associate Administrator of Field Operations for the U.S. Small Business Administration, stepped to the podium, it didn’t simply feel like a government official addressing an audience. It felt like the industry finally being invited into the conversation.
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Dan Wallrath didn’t know that the day he walked into a small Texas home, everything he thought he understood about building would change. He didn’t know that two photographs—one taken before Iraq, one taken after an IED—would sit heavy in his hands, revealing a transformation no blueprint could ever prepare him for. In the first image, a young soldier stood tall, full of promise. In the second, he faced a lifetime of profound injuries and mobility challenges. The hospital was ready to release him, but the home waiting for him was impossible to enter.
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