1967 may seem a long time ago to a lot of folks. To many, it is a thought away. Sometime in 1992 I was alone in my home reading the newly arrived Leatherneck Magazine, first thing I always did was look at the Mail Call section. Something or someone kept me looking for that Magazine every month, hoping to remember a name. There it was, Father Capodanno. A seminarian in Maryland was looking for anyone who remembered this Chaplain who was killed on Sept. 4, 1967 with his Marines. My wife woke me from a deep thought, asked if I was alright. I folded the page and set it aside. About a week later she asked me if I was going to contact Fr. Mode about the magazine article. My wife and I had shared a little about the Vietnam War, not much, over our 20 years of marriage. Wives are pretty sharp, she knew..

I knew the Padre the summer of 1967, as did a lot of us. He was a wonderful man, but even more, you could tell he was something special, the way he cared, spoke to you, you could tell.