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They were initint initially pi up their phone. i was panicking. i didnt know how widespread this was. i was panicking calling them to tell them i was okay. everybody was fine. thank god. >> ann curry with one of marathoners turned witness today fp if there were silver linings to what happened today in boston, two things. number one it happened just about at the medical tent so there were many medical professionals standing by. they thought they would be treating cases of dehydration and exhausti...

Saw this wave, a huge wave of smoke and glass and actually saw bodies flying in the air. and regained my footing and went to help a runner who got knocked down, an older gentleman. then the police and the medical people raced over and started tearing down the barricades and the snow fencing to try to get at the bodies on the ground. >> you barely had time to check your own self, but 12 seconds later, a second blast. then what did you think? >> oh, my god, am i safe here, because if there has bee...

Class triage unit available there on site. luckily for many of the wounded, the injured, i would think, they were within literally second. >> yeah, they were there within second. that part was good. unfortunately there was some people there wasnt much you could do but comfort them. there was a man whose leg was severed off. thats an image you cant forget when you see that. they were there on the scene to get people out of there, street closures, getting additional ambulances and police in there ...

Others may live. we all ran to the scene. everybody that was there within a short amount of time gave the wounded right now a better chance to live. and i send my prayers out to the families that lost loved ones. i just -- i mean, i just -- im still taken aback by it, you know. jon: you guys are heros no doubt. captain kenny you were there as well having run in the race. tell us your first thoughts when you heard the explosion or saw it. >> my first response was to crouch down and look behind. w...

Federal government, homeland security, fbi, various intelligence agencies, to work with the boston police department, massachusetts state police to very quickly secure that crime scene, get as much information, get as much evidence as they can to basically begin what will be a massive coordinated investigation. im also just listening to your previous speaker and watching the scene that hes describing, there was phenomenal heroism in the midst of that chaos, in the midst of what could have been a...

Bicycle straight into combat. thats he on the right carrying a wounded soldier from battle. army veteran, bob wood, says the father was fearless under fire. >> we both dove into that ditch alongside the trail. and looked back, and they had shot the pipe right out of his mouth. all he had was the stem of the pipe still clenched in his teeth. >> reporter: mike and father cappan were captured and thrown into a chinese prisoner of war camp where hundreds died from the cold, starvation and worse. >> ...

Thats him on the right carrying a wounded soldier from battle. army veteran, bob wood, says the father was fearless under fire. >> we both dove into that ditch alongside the trail. and looked back, and they had shot the pipe right out of his mouth. all he had was the stem of the pipe still clenched in his teeth. >> reporter: mike and father kapaun were captured and thrown into a chinese prisoner of war camp where hundreds died from the cold, starvation and worse. >> there were a lot of people wh...

For father amil kapon, a showing of faith. >> you still keep his picture on the wall. >> thats a picture of him holding his pipe when it was shot out of his mouth. >> reporter: he met the priest whelp they carried the wounded along the long stretch to the north. >> he was on the front edge of a long stretcher we were carrying and i said, im mike dowe. whats your name. he said amil kapong. >> its for these guys too. they would tell everybody they didnt want the story to die. >> reporter: stories ...

>> 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 ...

Forces viciously attacked the elements he calmly walked through withering enemy fire in order to offer aid and rescue through no mans land. they found thims surrounded by the enemy. facing annihilation, the able-bodied men were ordered to evacuation, however, chaplain kapaun fully aware of his certain capture left to stay behind with the wounded. after the enemies succeeded in breaking through the defense in the early morning hours of november 2nd, chaplain kapaun continually made rounds as hand...