with which has now led to the vatican investigating him for sainthood. so, yes, that process is still in process. but it also head the kansas congressional delegation to lobby for the three-year time limit to be lifted in the case of emeal capon and got it passed. president obama signed a measure in 2011 doing that. his name was then put forward for the medal of honor. the military investigated the allegations of his heroism, much as the vatican investigated the allegations of his miracles. and today his nephew accepted the medal of honor on his uncle s behalf in front of the octogenarian prisoners of war who served with him and still survive. father kapaun has been called a shepard in cam bottom boots. his fellow soldiers called him a saint. a blessing from god. today we bestow another title on
ground with a chinese soldier standing over him with a rifle pointed down right at him. and at that moment, his chaplain, the unarmed chaplain, who never carried a gun, came out of nowhere, walked right up to the chinese soldier and just pushed the barrel of his rifle aside, picked up the wounded american soldier, put him over his back, and walked into safety for miles. that act of heroism had a statue made to commemorate it at a church in kansas named for father emeal capon. and this crucifix carved by another american prisoner in his honor. his acts of heroism not just on the battlefield but once captured in the p.o. wchl camp stealing food, carrying the wounded, burying the dead, trading his watch for a blanket to cut into socks for the men freezing to death. those stories are well-known and well-told stories in kansas which led to kansans praying to him for other worldly assistance when they needed it.