I am very grateful for being allowed the opportunity to serve as a chaplain for the Department of Veterans Affairs for sixteen years. I especially enjoyed working with the Veteran Volunteers in our VA Medical Centers. Their compassion for their injured and suffering brothers and sisters is beyond measure. I witnessed many moments in the corridors of the hospital where a volunteer would be greeting a patient with joy and laughter and in other moments the volunteer would be expressing concern and even tears. There were times another volunteer would come up to me and point to a Veteran Volunteer...
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