Chaplain Kapaun Memorial High School - Crusader Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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THE MARTYR. . If I am asked what I think of the eternal salvation of a brave man who has consciously given his life in defence of his country's honour, and in vindication of violated justice, I shall not 'hesitate to reply that without any doubt whatever Christ crowns his mili- tary valourg. . . ---Most Reverend Mark K. Carroll, Bishop of Wichita. 5

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. . .who risked his life ADMINISTERING the last rites to the dying CARING for the sick, SAYING MASS under the very noses of the men who threatened him for it, tortured him for it, and feared him for it. 4

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A FITTING EPITAPH. . When you think of him now, you begin to remember things--the way he playedfootball, for example. He was not a particularly muscular or rugged boy and hardly had the physique to make a regular berth on a football team, even one as anemic and battered as ours was. But he did play, and you would usually find him crawling out from under a pile- up, and you wondered how he happened to be there at all. Of course you can't win wars that way. You can't even win football games that way, and we didn't win many. But there was a certain toughness and perti- nacity to things, no matter how hopeless the struggle. In academic matters Father Kapaun was much more successful. Quiet and retiring in his manner in this as in all things, he was always near the top of his class. Others were more flashy and brilliant, but in the long run he always seemed to work himself to the top like a large stone in a bucket of sand. --Fr. Edward Malone, O. S. B.