Soldier saved by Kapaun gets chance to hold his hero’s Medal of Honor

Soldier saved by Kapaun gets chance to hold his hero’s Medal of Honor
By STAN FINGER AND ROY WENZL
The Wichita Eagle
April 12, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few hours after he accepted his Uncle Emil’s Medal of Honor from the president of the United States, Ray Kapaun walked into the lobby of the Pentagon Sheraton Hotel in Arlington, Va., where he and his uncle’s Korean War comrades are staying.

In his hands, Kapaun held the Medal, with its sky blue sash, encased now in a small wood display box.

Several aged heroes from the war stood in the lobby, including former U.S. Army Master Sergeant Herbert Miller, an old soldier who now talks with a crack in his voice and whose hands shake so much from an affliction that makes it hard for him to sign his name.

At the White House, Ray had sat in the front row with his relatives and listened to the president describe the heroics of his uncle. Miller and his wife, Joyce, also sat in the front row, off to the president’s left, with some of the other eight soldiers who had been in the death camp with Kapaun.
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