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Father kapaun. >> he was able to engender a spirit of loyalty and meaningfulness to being adaptive to resisting your captors and maintaining your faith with your country that enabled you to keep your will to live. >> reporter: the priest regularly stole food for the starving men. >> hed come around and say "hot coffee" and give hot water to all of us there. man, that was -- may not sound like much today, but that sure meant a lot under those circumstances. >> reporter: the enemy, the north korea...

>> his nephew is accepting the medal in part for the men who were there. >> even though this medal of honor is for him, it is for these guys, too. he would tell anyone and everyone, theyen didnt want the story to die. >> reporter: stories of a priest rescuing the wounded. >> didnt matter there were mortar shells falling around him. >> reporter: mike dow survived being a pow because of father capon. >> he was able to ingender a spirit of loyalty and meaningfulness to being a captive by resisting ...

Of. and i said im mike do you liw, your name? >> he said capon. >> his nephew is accepting the medal in part for the men who were there. >> even though this medal of honor is for him, it is for these guys, too. they didnt want to die. >> reporter: stories of a priest rescuing the wounded. >> didnt matter there were mortar shells falling around him. >> reporter: mike dow survived being a pow because of farther capon. >> he was able to ingender a spirit of loyalty and meaningfulness to being a cap...