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Francis Bloodgood Hall Chaplain · Army Civil War · 1863 MH Milton Lorenzi Haney Regimental Chaplain · Army Civil War · 1864

Emil J. Kapaun Captain · Army Korean War · 1950 ✦

Charles James (Angelo) Liteky Captain · Army Vietnam War · 1967

Joseph Timothy O'Callahan Lieutenant Commander · Navy World War II · 1945

Charles Joseph Watters Major · Army Vietnam War · 1967 ✦ JW John Milton Whitehead Chaplain · Army Civil War · 1862

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