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Chase Kear

June 25, 2009

Chase Kear of Kansas was injured during a pole vaulting practice Hutchinson Community College last October. The right side of Chase Kear‘s skull was removed to relieve pressure off his swelling brain after the accident. His skull had been cracked from ear to ear, that his brain was swelling, and that either the surgery to remove a skull piece or the infection that might follow would probably kill him.

Paula and Paul Kear and dozens of other people made regular trips to the chapel at St. Francis to pray, always with the Father Emil Kapaun prayer.

Her mother, Paula Kear said, “Chase survived in part because hundreds of people prayed to Father Emil Kapaun to intercede on his behalf.”

Father Emil Kapaun is a U.S. Army chaplain from Pilsen, Kan., who died a hero in the Korean War. Kapaun became a hero, rescuing wounded soldiers from the battlefield and risking death by preventing Chinese executions of wounded Americans too injured to walk.

Here’s the interview of Chase Kear‘s parents.

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