Army Chaplain Posthumously Given Congressional Medal of Honor
Over his actions in the Korean War
President Barack Obama has posthumously awarded the United States' highest military honor to a Roman Catholic Army chaplain who sacrificed almost everything he had for his fellow prisoners of war in Korea.
Reverend Emil Kapaun died in a North Korean POW camp in 1951.
Those who survived lobbied for 60 years for him to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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