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Emil J. Kapaun

The place - Korea, the time - war.
He went to serve U.S. and God,
A chaplain in the front lines gore,
Captured by enemy death squad.
To caught comrades he gave them all
The hope and faith that he could give.
He answered to a higher call,
To help his fellow comrades live.
His spirit strong, but body weak,
Ills engulfed and crushed out his breath.
To his last comrades, he did speak,
"Tell them I died a happy death."

He lived and died within war's hell,
Emil J. Kapaun served good well.