Father Lt. Vincent Capodanno, USNR (ChC) Medal of Honor

Please visit www.vincentcapodanno.org the source of most of the pictures.

As Company "M" approached the small village of Chau Lam, the North Vietnamese opened up on the 2nd Platoon, which was caught on a small knoll, out in the open. The fighting was fierce, hand to hand at times, and the platoon was in danger of being overrun. Father Capodanno went among the wounded and dying, giving last rites and taking care of his Marines. Wounded once in the face and suffering another wound that almost severed his hand, Father Capodanno moved to help a wounded corpsman only yards from an enemy machinegun. Father Capodanno died taking care of one of his men.

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[random331]

google: Avro Manhatten - Vietnam Why Did We Go

[swflprof]

Some of us don't have to google Nam, we were there.

[yourcivilrights]

Why doesn't Hollywood make a movie about this real man; a man of faith, a man of compassion and a man of courage.  Things that Hollywood of course knows nothing about.

[adefender03]

Fr. Vincent pray for us

[BigCspud]

Vietnam was the line drawn in the sand, telling the Communist to keep out of Europe or else; our willingness to fight in Vietnam and our complete military domination of the battlefield is what kept the Russians from rolling across Europe! God Bless our troops who died there, and God Bless our heroes who came home alive!! Thank you!