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Remebering Medal of Honor Recipient Fr. Emil Kapaun 65 Years Later

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Courtesy of Catholic Standard In October 1950, a company of US soldiers was overrun by Chinese and Korean soldiers. This came just months after the United States entered the Korean War. Members of the 1st Cavalry Division were surrounded by the Communist forces and would eventually surrender. One of them was Fr. Emil Kapaun, an army chaplain, who had experience in the Burma theater during World War II. He refused to leave “his boys” behind as he…
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EpicPew broke the news on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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