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I'm Noelle Heister Crowe.

And I'm Tom Crowe.

Today we're talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor and Father Aloysius Schmidt,

the Catholic priest who saved many sailors at the cost of his own life.

We've talked about a number of chaplains in this podcast, including a few who died while

caring for souls in the most extreme circumstances.

Yes, the first was the grunt padre, Father Vincent Capadano, who was a Navy chaplain,

and he served with the Marines and was gunned down in Vietnam.

The second was Father Emil Capin, an army chaplain, who was taken prisoner of war in Korea

and died in the POW camp as a result of his extreme efforts to protect and serve his men.

We also talked about Father Francis Duffy, who served with distinction in World War

1 and made a major impact on his parishes in New York City. He did not die in war.

The last of the other stories was Father Francis Sampson, who was an unlikely Navy chaplain,

but who ended up playing a major role in saving the USS Franklin when it was severely

damaged by an attack in World War II. Today's story is a bit shorter than all four of those because

today's main character died younger than they did, and he lived a straightforward, solid,

but uneventful kind of life before his spectacular final act.

And we should note that this episode was originally done in tandem with a two-part episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World released on the StarQuest Network.

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