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Four Heroic Chaplains
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During World War II, four chaplains gave their lives so that others could live when the S.S. Dorchester sank off Greenland on February 3, 1943: Lt. G.L. Fox, Protestant; Lt. J.D. Washington, Catholic; Lt. C.V. Poling, Protestant; and Lt. A.D. Goode, Jewish. United under one God, they represented Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant faiths.
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