{"id":9358,"date":"2011-02-28T02:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2011-02-21T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:31:36","slug":"congress-seeks-medal-of-honor-for-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/congress-seeks-medal-of-honor-for-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Seeks Medal of Honor for Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted, the US Army <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/chaplain-considered-for-medal-of-honor\/\">recommended Chaplain (Capt) Emil Kapaun for a Medal of Honor<\/a> in 2009.\u00a0 Kapaun died in captivity in North Korea in 1951 after he was captured by the Chinese; he had stayed behind when the unit retreated in order to remain with those who could not flee.\u00a0\u00a0Stories told by repatriated Soldiers were of Kapaun&#8217;s continual service and sacrifice, even at great personal risk, to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the captives.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press recently noted that the Kansas Congressional delegation (Kapaun hailed from Kansas) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/01\/26\/2611019\/kansas-delegation-seeks-medal.html\">seeking legislation to grant the Medal of Honor<\/a> to Kapaun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted, the US Army recommended Chaplain (Capt) Emil Kapaun for a Medal of Honor in 2009.\u00a0 Kapaun died in captivity in North Korea in 1951 after he was captured by the Chinese; he had stayed behind when the unit retreated in order to remain with those who could not flee.\u00a0\u00a0Stories told by repatriated Soldiers were of Kapaun&#8217;s continual [&#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":[88,5284,1493,1494,89,91,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-emil-kapaun","tag-kansas","tag-korea","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","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=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}