Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War. (CNS photo/U.S. Army courtesy The Catholic Advance) March 11, 2021 Catholic News Service WICHITA, Kan. William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun s body after the priest died May 23, 1951. In 2005, Hansen was in his doctor s office at a VA Hospital in Florida when he read an article about the U.S. Army chaplain who died a hero in a North Korean POW camp in Pyongyang.
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Capt. Emil Kapaun's remains were identified as part of an effort by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to identify all the unknowns at a national cemetery in Honolulu.
Department of Defense investigators have identified the remains of U.S. Army chaplain and Catholic priest Emil Kapaun among the unknown Korean War soldiers