Four Chaplains Day
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Email July 4, 2024: I stumbled across your website radio broadcast about the “Four Chaplains.” When my Bride and I were to be married I asked a Navy Chaplain, whom I had known for many years, to perform our wedding service. That was some 18 years ago. The task was to bridge the Catholic and Protestant (LCMS) faiths that we were loyal followers of. Unbeknownst to us, he incorporated the Four Chaplains story into our wedding ceremony and did so with eloquence only a Chaplin could. He has now passed on due to COVID, but the story resonates through and through as many couples do not share the same religious faith but do share their faith in God. Aloha, Daniel W. in Hawaii.
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January 30, 2024, 8:30 am: Brainerd VFW Chaplain Eusebia Rios and Mark Persons were interviewed on WWWI 1270 AM and 95.9 FM Radio. Brad Mielke is the morning man on the right.
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Similar interviews were herd on three
other radio stations in Brainerd. Also see: https://fourchaplains.org/ |
John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
Background from Wikipedia:
All four held the rank of first lieutenant. They included Methodist minister the Reverend George L. Fox, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD), Catholic priest Father John P. Washington, and Reformed Church in America minister the Reverend Clark V. Poling. Their backgrounds, personalities, and denominations were different. They met at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard University, where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing onboard Dorchester to report to their new assignments.
The Dorchester was a civilian liner converted for military service in World War II. The ship left New York carrying approximately 900 men as part of a convoy of three ships. During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, the vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine near Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. The chaplains helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out. The chaplains joined arms, said prayers, and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
Only 230 of the 900 Dorchester passengers and crew survived.
All four held the rank of first lieutenant. They included Methodist minister the Reverend George L. Fox, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD), Catholic priest Father John P. Washington, and Reformed Church in America minister the Reverend Clark V. Poling. Their backgrounds, personalities, and denominations were different. They met at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard University, where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing onboard Dorchester to report to their new assignments.
The Dorchester was a civilian liner converted for military service in World War II. The ship left New York carrying approximately 900 men as part of a convoy of three ships. During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, the vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine near Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. The chaplains helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out. The chaplains joined arms, said prayers, and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
Only 230 of the 900 Dorchester passengers and crew survived.
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A postage stamp from 1948.
The Brainerd VFW honors their memory.
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