With Memorial Day around the corner and veterans on everyone’s mind, the time seems right to highlight an impending hallmark event: the grand opening of VA Butler Healthcare’s new health center on North Duffy Road.

In just three months Veterans Affairs officials, with the help of Congressman Mike Kelly and others, will celebrate the center’s opening. But as of yet we haven’t heard whether anyone else from the federal government will be attending.

With that in mind, we’d like to formally extend an invitation to you, Mr. President. Come be a part of the event on Aug. 25 that will celebrate the opening of an important addition to the region’s VA system.

Despite the storm of negative news surrounding some VA systems, VA Butler Healthcare appears to be a model of good service. A 2014 audit found that of 24,500 appointments scheduled at Butler’s VA, only 45 had to wait longer than 30 days. The project to construct the system’s new facility is no exception. As other VA centers have lagged far behind schedule and seen costs balloon far beyond expectations, Butler’s new VA health center has come in on time and budget. It might be useful for you to see that the federal government can, in fact, achieve good works.

While you’re in Butler to celebrate the VA’s grand opening, we’d love to show you around our fair county. In the city alone there are numerous relics of the traditional industries — steel, railroads, manufacturing — that helped build this region’s identity and which you have pledged to reinvigorate. Come see them and tell us about your vision for the future of cities like Butler.

Further afield in Butler County there are gems as well. To the north we could show you around gorgeous Moraine State Park, which routinely hosts national sporting events and is one of the jewels of the state park system. With decades worth of natural gas locked beneath our feet and 200,000 acres of public land dedicated to hiking, camping, fishing and hunting, Pennsylvanians take nature and the environment very seriously.

We take family and community seriously as well. To the south you could tour the bedroom communities, professional parks and retail hubs that make up our county’s fastest-growing townships and boroughs. They’re the engine that keeps Butler County growing and innovating despite the popular narrative pegging us as a Rust Belt has-been.

There’s much more to see and talk about, but through it all weaves one common thread: veterans. Butler County has nearly 10,000 men and women who embody the American ideals of character and service. That’s nearly 8.5 percent of our county’s total population — one of the highest rates in the country. Pennsylvania as a whole ranks as one of the nation’s largest veteran populations, with 364,219 veterans between the ages of 18 and 64, according to the state’s Center for Workforce Information and analysis. This new addition to our VA system is for them. It’s part of our country’s continuing commitment to aid and serve the men and women who have served us, and it’s the least of what they deserve.

We genuinely hope you will attend the VA ceremony in August, Mr. President. Your campaign was run on (and in large part won because of) promises and appeals to voters like the residents of Butler County.

Voters here have been with you from the very beginning. They gave you a sweeping primary victory last May (you won more than 56 percent; 20,054 votes), and in November turned out to deliver you what can only be described as a landslide victory, with nearly 66 percent of the vote (64,431). That passion helped power you to a 73,254-vote victory in a state that hasn’t supported a Republican presidential candidate since George W. Bush in 1988.

And despite the foibles, stumbles and chaos that has characterized your young administration, they continue to stick by you and believe in your vision. When syndicated columnists and editorial cartoons lash out at your unconventional style or perceived political naivete, they remind us that they’re watching and waiting for you to deliver on your promises. They haven’t lost faith.

So please, make yourself at home in Butler County on Aug. 25. Help us celebrate the improvement of a vital federal agency, and use the opportunity to learn more about the men and women who make up one of your most faithful constituencies.