A Petition to the U.S. Postmaster General to issue a Commemorative Stamp to honor Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Fr. Vincent Capodanno. Click here and sign the online petition! Lieutenant Father Vincent Capodanno was born on February 13, 1929, in Staten Island, New York. Vincent was the youngest of 10 children. His father was an immigrant from Gaeta, Italy, and his mother was Italian American.

In 1949 Vincent entered the Maryknoll Missionary Seminary. He was ordained in 1958. Fr. Capodanno began his career as a missionary and traveled to Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Vietnam. Fr. Capodanno became a lieutenant in the Navy Chaplain Corps in Vietnam on December 28, 1965. In 1966 he requested to serve with the Fleet Marine Force in South Vietnam.