Fr. Vincent Capodanno - Servant of God, Military Hero, and Model of Faith — Transcript

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2. 0:14father capid was loved by his Marines
3. 0:16because he was always right there with
4. 0:18them on the front lines he was told it
5. 0:20wasn't his job to go on patrols but he
6. 0:22was often seen jumping on helicopters at
7. 0:24the last minute with his priest gear he
8. 0:27knew that where the fighting was
9. 0:28thickest is where a chaplain might be
10. 0:30needed the
11. 0:33most on September 4th
12. 0:361967 a battle broke out called operation
13. 0:39Swift US Marines found themselves
14. 0:42entirely surrounded by North Vietnamese
15. 0:44Army and outnumbered 5 to one one
16. 0:48Survivor said the sound of constant
17. 0:50artillery was like Niagara Falls they
18. 0:53didn't even know where to shoot back and
19. 0:55right in that midst of that chaos was
20. 0:57father capano he ran around ministering
21. 1:00to people and saving people's lives one
22. 1:02Marina I had the honor of talking to had
23. 1:04about 70 lbs of communications gear on
24. 1:06his back things began to explode around
25. 1:08him and he thought this is it I'm going
26. 1:11to die all of a sudden this guy lands
27. 1:13beside me I didn't know who he was and
28. 1:17when we both looked up he grabs me by
29. 1:19the pack as I mentioned in this article
30. 1:21I wrote the hands of God reaching down
31. 1:24to lift me
32. 1:26[Music]
33. 1:27up I don't know if we had to HIIT the
34. 1:29the deck one or two more times but he
35. 1:31literally threw me into this bomb crat
36. 1:34and I land in there and I thought he was
37. 1:36going to come in with me and uh he
38. 1:39didn't and he we just made eye contact
39. 1:42there was no verbal message we couldn't
40. 1:44we couldn't communicate it was so loud
41. 1:46so much noise going on and and we just
42. 1:48looked each other and he gave me a look
43. 1:49like don't worry it's going to be
44. 1:52okay just moments after he left me um
45. 1:56there was some gas dropped and uh at one
46. 2:00point or another he had given his gas
47. 2:02mask maybe to another Marine I'm not
48. 2:03sure about that but at the time he
49. 2:04didn't have one so I offered him mine
50. 2:08and he said no you need it more than I
51. 2:10do and and so at that moment he just was
52. 2:13gone from my
53. 2:16view another Marine was hit with
54. 2:18shrapnel bleeding on the ground
55. 2:20terrified when father capano got up to
56. 2:23him a bubble of Peace descended on them
57. 2:27it was completely
58. 2:28quiet all he heard was his voice God is
59. 2:32with us all this day someone will be
60. 2:34here soon to help
61. 2:36you father capad was always able to see
62. 2:39the crisis of the moment from an eternal
63. 2:41perspective he he was able to
64. 2:44communicate a a very honest sense of
65. 2:49perspective and
66. 2:52confidence uh that no matter what
67. 2:54happened you were going to be all right
68. 3:03capano didn't survive that day he was
69. 3:06running to minister to a medic who had
70. 3:07been shot just yards from the machine
71. 3:10gunner who had targeted him he was shot
72. 3:1227 times in the
73. 3:17back he died on a field in Vietnam with
74. 3:20that medic and with 127 other Marines he
75. 3:25received the Medal of Honor the USS
76. 3:27capana was named after him he's been
77. 3:29declared servant of God by the Catholic
78. 3:31church that's the first step toward
79. 3:33becoming a canonized Saint his name is
80. 3:36on the Vietnam War Memorial the only way
81. 3:39to see it is to
82. 3:42[Music]
83. 3:46kneel the way he died that's how we're
84. 3:49supposed to live for
85. 3:52others we have enough famous people we
86. 3:55have enough people sh the world how to
87. 3:57perfect the art of making your life all
88. 3:58about you
89. 4:00we don't need more of that we
90. 4:02desperately need the next father
91. 4:09capid father capano pray for us
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