| THE GRUNT PRIEST by Fr. David La Buda, M.M.
Vincent Capodanno was born on February 13th, 1929, in Staten Island, New York. After attending a year at Fordham University, young Vincent Capodanno entered the Maryknoll seminary in 1949, and was ordained in 1958. After ordination, Father Capodanno was assigned to work with aboriginal Taiwanese in the mountains of Taiwan where he served in a parish and later in a school. After seven years, Father Capodanno returned to the United States for leave and then was assigned to a Maryknoll school in Hong Kong.
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| 2009 RETURN TO VIETNAM PART IV by Steve Lovejoy
Following the emotional experience at the Knoll, we moved onto the site of Operation Union ll where on 2 June 1967, I was wounded in a large battle. As we traveled there, deep off of the highway on a dirt road, we came across what we would call a subdivision! There in the middle of nowhere were all new homes built to the same code of all other Vietnamese homes, 15 feet wide and 60 feet long.
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| 2009 RETURN TO VIETNAM PART III by Steve Lovejoy
Of Father Capodanno's involvement in Operation Swift, John Lobur has said " I did not see Father when we embarked and I did not notice him anywhere as we approached the shooting. I assumed he was with Lieutenant Murray who was our company commander at the time." Typically a chaplain would remain with the command post as he- like the skipper, a corpsmen, air and artillery forward observers and radiomen- were not expected to run right up the gut like we were.
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| On Thursday, September 3 at 7 p.m. a dedicated band of people will gather in the crypt church of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington to honor a man who may some day be declared a saint. Archbishop Timothy M. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services will be main celebrant of the Mass - an annual event - which this year falls on the eve of the 42nd anniversary of the death of Father Vincent R. Capodanno, M.M., the "Grunt Padre."
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