The Father

Hey, Gangrey friends,

The Wichita Eagle has an unusual story project set to launch Dec. 6.

It will include an 8-part serial narrative and our first-ever hour-long narrative news documentary. We spent six months on it; we even put a musical score to the documentary.

Father Emil Kapaun was a priest who died as a U.S. Army chaplain in the Korean War. The peg for this is that there is a good chance Kapaun will become the first person awarded the Medal of Honor, and sainthood

in the Catholic church.

The story describes the last 7 months of Kapaun's life, but the sub-purpose is to explore various shades of belief in miracles. For example, the church in studying Kapaun has asked former Korean War…