Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Grunt Padre up for sainthood?

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His mission was to the grunts, fighting in the front lines whom he felt really needed a chaplain.

...As a 20-year-old corporal, quoted in the New York Times' September 9, 1967 edition, said, "Somehow he just seemed to act the way a man of God should act." ...

In January 1969, Lieutenant Vincent R. Capodanno, MM, became the second chaplain in United States history to receive... the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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