the Four Chaplains

This podcast includes the history of the Four Chaplains' selfless sacrifice and Matt's remark at a recent Four Chaplains' Service conducted by the local American Legion. Four U.S. Army Chaplains gave up their life jackets and prayed together when their transport ship, the U.S.A.T Dorchester was torpedoed eighty miles south of Greenland on February 3, 1943. The Chaplains came from different faiths and backgrounds. John P. Washington was a Catholic Priest from Kearny, New Jersey, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode was a native of York, Pennsylvania. Clark V. Poling was a a minister in the Reformed Church in America at the First Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York. George L. Fox, a decorated World War One veteran, was a Methodist minister in Gilman, Vermont. The story of the Four Chaplain’s includes not only the background of the Chaplains, their interfaith cooperation, and their selfless sacrifice but it also includes the memories of the close to seven hundred lives lost that day, the stories of the survivors, the bravery of the rescuers and those who are inspired even today. We may never be asked to give up our own life jacket to save another person, but the story of the Four Chaplains can inspire us to reach out a helping hand in a time of need. (from The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation webpage)

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the Four Chaplains is an episode from Daily Grit with Matt Weathers by Chaplain Matthew Weathers.

This episode is 23:26 long.

This episode was published on Feb 6, 2017.

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