Army Chaplain Emil Kapaun to Receive Medal of Honor
"Among the dying, Capt. Emil Kapaun traded his watch for a blanket at a North Korean prison camp—and cut the blanket up and made it into socks for fellow prisoners.
President Obama will award Kapaun (pronounced Ka-PAWN), an Army
chaplain who died in that prison camp in 1951 at age 35, the Medal of
Honor Thursday.
The son of Czech immigrants to a small Kansan town, Kapaun enlisted
during WWII and was dispatched to the Southeast Asian theatre of war,
where he gained a reputation for just appearing wherever the fighting was." [Washington Free Beacon]
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