Chaplain (Capt) Emil Kapaun was memorialized with a monument at Camp Walker, South Korea, in December.

After decades of efforts, President Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Kapaun posthumously in April 2013.

“This is the valor we honor today,” President Barack Obama said during the award ceremony, “an American soldier who didn’t fire a gun, but who wielded the mightiest weapon of all: a love for his brothers so pure that he is willing to die so that they might live.”

To think, some atheists claim there are no chaplains on the front lines in the US military…

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