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Recognition finally for a warrior priest's heroics

whydave · 2012-04-17 08:31:53

US Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun stole, suffered and sacrificed his life for his fellow soldiers in a Korean prison camp. By Daniel Nasaw (BBC) Six decades after his death, he is being considered for the Congressional Medal of Honor - and sainthood.On 2 November 1950, Father Kapaun made the decision that led to his…

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US Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun stole, suffered and sacrificed his life for his fellow soldiers in a Korean prison camp.
By Daniel Nasaw (BBC)
Six decades after his death, he is being considered for the Congressional Medal of Honor - and sainthood.On 2 November 1950, Father Kapaun made the decision that led to his death.The Korean war chaplain was in the middle of a firefight, with the American forces overrun by Chinese soldiers outside a crossroads town called Unsan in North Korea.Lighting forest fires to frustrate US reconnaissance planes, the Chinese surrounded the Americans and pressed in, attacking with small arms, grenades and even bayonets.Meanwhile, Chaplain Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest from a farming village in Kansas, gathered the wounded in a dug-out shelter made of logs and straw.Father Kapaun in an undated photograph from Korea Though he never fired a shot, Father Kapaun saw as much mean action as any man in his unit.When American officers ordered the able-bodied to retreat, Father Kapaun, a 35-year-old captain, refused to leave the wounded.As the Chinese soldiers began lobbying grenades into the dug-out, Kapaun negotiated a surrender.
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