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White House retreat to help veterans focus on prayer and faith

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Father Joe Laramie, SJ, right, talked with Vietnam veterans Mark Lynch, left, Kenneth Duncan and Ray Mercer at a stop of the American Veterans Traveling Tribute replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Festus. Father Laramie was discussing a retreat for veterans that will be held July 1-3 at White House retreat center.

With the Vietnam Traveling Wall as a backdrop at West Park in Festus, Jesuit Father Joe Laramie quietly visited with folks paying respects to friends, relatives or just plain strangers among soldiers who died in the war.

Originally, he had planned to be there to share information about an upcoming retreat, exclusively for veterans, just before Independence Day, July 1-3 at the White House Jesuit Retreat.

But as often happens with priests, he spent time ministering — "light ministry," he called it — to men and women who had come to see the wall.

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