Spirituality Gains Ground In Treatment Of Ill Veterans »

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" I have dreams," said Vietnam veteran Raymond Ratajczak Jr., his mouth wet and tears on his face. " Dreams of recovery." Ratajczak sat up in a cot at the Baltimore VA Medical Center in a room shared with three other patients. Every few minutes, his face wrinkled and he began to cry.

"What did we talk about earlier today, Raymond?" asked hospital chaplain Charles Thomas. Ratajczak looked up from his bed.

"So a man thinketh, so he be," Ratajczak said, paraphrasing proverbs.

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