{"id":652039,"date":"2013-04-11T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=c78f5990cd2d005112c14c590b29999f"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:29:05","slug":"president-obama-awards-medal-of-honor-to-father-emil-kapaun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652039","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Father Emil Kapaun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/p041113ps-05881.jpg?itok=EwNpGqu8\" alt=\"President Obama embraces Ray Kapaun after presenting him with the Medal of Honor awarded to his uncle, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun, April 11, 2013.\" title=\"President Obama embraces Ray Kapaun after presenting him with the Medal of Honor awarded to his uncle, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun, April 11, 2013.\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>\n    President Barack Obama embraces Ray Kapaun after presenting him with the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to his uncle, Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, April 11, 2013. Chaplain Kapaun was awarded the medal for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and as a prisoner of war from November 1-2, 1950. <\/p>\n<p>    (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today in the East Room, President Obama told the story of Emil Kapaun, an Army Chaplain from Kansas who served in the US Army during the Korean War. It&#39;s a powerful story, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/11\/remarks-president-presentation-medal-honor-chaplain-emil-j-kapaun-us-arm\">probably best told in the President&#39;s own words<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/president-obama-awards-medal-honor-father-emil-kapaun-0\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama embraces Ray Kapaun after presenting him with the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to his uncle, Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, April 11, 2013. Chaplain Kapaun was awarded the medal for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}