Founder of Zimmermann Blinds & Shades, LLC, Brian Zimmermann is a Persian Gulf War veteran who served with the First Infantry Division 'The Big Red One', earning the Combat Infantryman Badge, 3 Bronze Stars, and various other medals and awards for his service. Living with Gulf War Illness and PTSD has driven Brian to reach out and do what he can to help other veterans, by talking with them and connecting them to resources available to veterans. Brian also has a close relationship with 'The Eyes of Freedom', a traveling veterans memorial for the Lima Company . Upon meeting the artist who created 'The Eyes of Freedom', Anita Miller, Brian found a new passion in life, and Anita was inspired by Brian's life and story to create 'Silent Battle', a life size bronze sculpture in which she used Brian as the model, and which will begin traveling the country as a part of ''The Eyes of Freedom' exhibit, to bring awareness of the many returning service members who come home and struggle with the invisible wounds of war. Donations recieved go to scholarships for children of military suicide victims and to PTSD research.