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Four military chaplains were on board the World War II military transport ship S.S. Dorchester when it was sunk by a German torpedo on February 3, 1943. As the ship was going down, the men named below gave their life jackets to young soldiers who had none and preached courage to the young men. Those four chaplains, men of different faiths but believing in the same God, their arms linked, standing on the deck together in prayer.
Father John Washington, born in Newark, New Jersey, who was Catholic; the Rev. Clark Poling, born in Columbus, Ohio, who was ordained in the Reformed Church in America; Rabbi Alexander Goode, born in Brooklyn, New York, who was Jewish; and the Rev. George Fox, born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, who was Methodist.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/opinion/greene-four-chaplains/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Father John Washington, born in Newark, New Jersey, who was Catholic; the Rev. Clark Poling, born in Columbus, Ohio, who was ordained in the Reformed Church in America; Rabbi Alexander Goode, born in Brooklyn, New York, who was Jewish; and the Rev. George Fox, born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, who was Methodist.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/opinion/greene-four-chaplains/index.html?hpt=hp_c1