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This Communist propaganda photo shows several of Emil Kapaun's friends in captivity, taken long after Kapaun died. Sidney Esensten is second from left, Clarence Anderson is in the middle, and Chester Osborne, whose life Kapaun saved, is at right. Surviving POWs detest this photo; it makes them look healthy in a camp where they were being mistreated.

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The press release that accompanied the photo of Chester Osborne and prisoners playing chess.

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POW Chester Osborne (arm upraised), whose life Father Kapaun saved from starvation and illness, during his voyage home after the Korean War ended. OsborneÕs family mistakenly received notice during the war that he was killed in action.

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A young Chester Osborne, whose life Kapaun saved

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