South Korea honors US priest with highest military honor
Father Emil Kapaun, a candidate for sainthood, was a US Army chaplain in World War II and the Korean War
Updated: July 29, 2021 05:45 AM GMT
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Father Emil Kapaun was a priest of the Diocese of Wichita in the US who was an army chaplain and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Father Emil Kapaun, an American priest who laid down his life as a military chaplain during the Korean War, has received South Korea s highest military decoration posthumously.
Ray Kapaun, Father Kapaun s nephew, accepted the Order of Military Merit on behalf his uncle, a candidate for sainthood, from President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on July 27.
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South Korea honors Father Kapaun with country s highest military honor
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