Herman Felhoelter attended Saint MartinÕs school in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was born, and then attended Saint Francis Seminary at Mount Healthy, Ohio. He spent six years at Dun Scotus College in Detroit, Michigan, followed by three years at the Holy Family Monastery at Oldensburg, Indiana. He was ordained a Catholic Priest on June 1939. His first calling was as an assistant parish priest at Saint Boniface Church in Peoria, Illinois. In 1944 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was commissioned as a chaplain, assigned to the 12th Armored Division. He served with the division in Europe from November 1944 to May 1945. His only living brother served in the Army Air Forces in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations during the war, and was reported missing in action and subsequently confirmed killed in action. Felhoelter returned to civilian ministry after the war and was an assistant pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio, but returned to military service in 1948. Promoted to captain, he was assigned to the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, on occupation duty in post-war Japan. Following the start of hostilities in Korea, the 24th Infantry Division was one of the first United NationÕs elements sent to South Korea to reinforce the Pusan Perimeter. For his heroic actions in the Korean War, that resulted in him being executed in captivity and listed as missing in action, he became remembered as “The Martyr Priest of Taejon.”