Heroic Korean War priest remembered by prison-mate
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Fr. Emil J. Kapaun.
By Carl Bunderson
Washington D.C., Apr 9, 2013 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A fellow prisoner of war has fondly recalled the heroism of Father Emil Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain who died in a North Korean camp and is posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor April 11.
Eighty-five year-old veteran Mike Dowe still remembers the day in 1950 when he marched nearly 90 miles to the prison camp in Pyoktong after being captured at the battle of Unsan.
There was this one character who kept going around encouraging people to carry the wounded, and helped in every way he could, Dowe told CNA.
Finally they marched us into a valley, and as we started out I was on the front end of a stretcher...and I said 'I'm Mike Dowe, who's that on the back?'
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/heroic-korean-war-priest-remembered-by-prison-mate/
Here's an update on the ceremony.
Obama honors Roman Catholic priest with Medal of Honor
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/04/11/obama-kapaun-medal/2075325/