#238: Ex-POW Remembers Father Emil Kapaun
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Mike Dowe has hundreds of stories about years as a prisoner of war in a communist prison camp. Dowe was a POW in a brutal camp north of the Yalu River in North Korea during the Korean conflict. His memories are vivid and unusually detailed.
The stories he loves to tell the most are about the priest he credits with keeping him (Dowe) and many hundreds of others alive during their unimaginable years of trial and deprivation at the hands of the communists.
Watch the rest of this episode here: https://www.patrickcoffin.media/ex-pow-remembers…ther-emil-kapaun/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. The very first |
| 0:03.3 | monologue podcast that I did a few months ago was called the Bravis Priests You've Never Heard of and I talked about one of my |
| 0:11.0 | spiritual fathers, Father Emil Kapon, who's now serving of God the first step in the Catholic Church towards Sanhed |
| 0:17.9 | He was a POW during the Korean War and a lot has been written about them and one of the first to write about him |
| 0:24.2 | was one of the last men to see him alive, Colonel Mike Dow, who joins us |
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| 0:52.6 | discount. Colonel Mike Dow on Father Emil Kapon right here on the Patrick Coffin Show but first |
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| 1:10.0 | documentary ever made and I'm the voice of the thrice holy god and I say unto you, listen to my |
| 1:20.8 | servant, Patrick Coffin. As promised, I'm honored to be speaking again with Colonel Mike Dow, retired |
| 1:27.1 | US Army, Colonel entrepreneur, businessman, and former housemate in incredibly difficult conditions |
| 1:34.6 | in the POW camp run by the Chinese during the Korean War. Mike, thanks for joining me again. |
| 1:40.4 | I'm glad to be here Patrick. Last time I saw you, you were blasting through San Diego and we sat |
| 1:46.7 | down for a very short exchange on Father Kapon and I was overjoyed. In fact, I became emotional when |
| 1:53.4 | I heard the news that Father Kapon's remains had been found in a military cemetery in Hawaii. |
| 1:59.7 | This past December, this kind of like an anti-Canada moment probably for the POWs who are still with us. |
| 2:08.4 | Where were you when you heard that they had found his body? I was sitting right here and received a call |
| 2:14.9 | from his nephew who is really running the show right now as the closest remaining what relative |
| 2:24.6 | break on. And, excuse me, Ray called and told me and I got admit I couldn't help but tear when |
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