Therese Park

Therese Park is a Korean American who has lived in the Kansas City metro area for 54 years and played with the Kansas City Philharmonic-Symphony for 30 years. After her retirement in 1997, she wrote extensively about the Korean War she lived through and those who granted South Korea freedom.

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U.S. Army chaplain Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner-of-war camp, celebrates Mass from the hood of a jeep Oct. 7, 1950, in South Korea. (CNS/Courtesy of U.S. Army medic Raymond Skeehan)

Korean War POW Fr. Emil Kapaun's last Easter Mass speaks to this Good Friday

Perspective: America needs God's healing grace more than ever. As this chaplain made clear on Easter 1951, we must understand what Jesus went through — his suffering, his humiliation and his death on the cross.

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