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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 27, 2014 04:37 PM |
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| From: | Representative Paul I. Clymer |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Resolution -- Designating February 3, 2014, as "Four Chaplains Day" |
| At the end of the week, I will be introducing a resolution designating February 3, 2014, as "Four Chaplains Day." On February 3, 1943, the Army transport ship Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-boat while crossing the icy North Atlantic in a convoy. Of the 902 soldiers, merchant seamen and civilian workers aboard, only 230 were rescued. As Dorchester slid beneath the waves, the four Army chaplains calmed frightened men and led as many as they could to safety. When they ran out of life jackets, they gave away their own. Those swimming in the water and floating in rafts never forgot their last glimpse of the chaplains: all four - Methodist minister, Jewish rabbi, Reformed Church in America reverend and Roman Catholic priest - were linked arm in arm, praying and singing hymns as they went down with the ship. Please consider joining me as a cosponsor of this resolution. |
Introduced as HR634