{"id":22128,"date":"2013-04-11T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:39:23","slug":"army-highlights-korean-war-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/army-highlights-korean-war-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Highlights Korean War Chaplains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As US Army Chaplain (Capt) Emil Kapaun\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/the-story-of-chaplain-kapaun-medal-of-honor-recipient\/\">posthumously receives the Medal of Honor<\/a> for his service during the Korean War, the US Army took the opportunity to highlight the story of the entire chaplaincy during the era of the Korean War, including Chaplain Felhoelter, the first US Army chaplain killed in the conflict:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other chaplains&#8230;narrowly escap[ed] as one American position after another fell before the North Korean advance. All survived, with the exception of Chaplain Herman G. Felhoelter of the 19th Infantry Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>With his battalion falling back as the American position along the Kum River collapsed, Felhoelter volunteered to remain behind <!--more-->with a group of critically wounded men. A North Korean patrol came upon the group and executed the prostrate soldiers and their praying chaplain. Felhoelter was the first of twelve chaplains to die in action or as a prisoner during the Korean War. The second also perished in July 1950, when Chaplain Byron D. Lee of the 35th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division) was mortally wounded during an attack from an enemy aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the lengthy and full story covering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/100572\/Under_Fire__Army_Chaplains_in_Korea__1950\/\">service of US military chaplains during the Korean War<\/a>.\u00a0 It should leave little doubt of the attitude and spirit of service military chaplains have for the troops they serve.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As US Army Chaplain (Capt) Emil Kapaun\u00a0posthumously receives the Medal of Honor for his service during the Korean War, the US Army took the opportunity to highlight the story of the entire chaplaincy during the era of the Korean War, including Chaplain Felhoelter, the first US Army chaplain killed in the conflict: Other chaplains&#8230;narrowly escap[ed] as one American position after [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3960,5284,1493,3959,518,91,2],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-byron-lee","tag-chaplain","tag-emil-kapaun","tag-herman-felhoelter","tag-korean-war","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}