Monday, April 8, 2013

Chaplain to get Medal of Honor 62 years after death | Marine Corps ...

Father Emil Kapaun holds out a broken pipe. The plain-spoken, pipe-smoking chaplain is posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor for his “extraordinary heroism” while serving as an Army chaplain during the Korean War. He died in captivity in 1951.
Father Emil Kapaun holds out a broken pipe. The plain-spoken, pipe-smoking chaplain is posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor for his ?extraordinary heroism? while serving as an Army chaplain during the Korean War. He died in captivity in 1951. (Catholic Diocese of Wichita via AP)


By Sharon Cohen, The Associated Press

Father Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass using the hood of his Jeep as an altar, as his assistant, Patrick J. Schuler, kneels in prayer in Korea on Oct. 7, 1950, less than a month before Kapaun was taken prisoner. (Col. Raymond A. Skeehan via The Wichita Eagle / AP)

Source: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130407/NEWS/304070004

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