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Four Chaplains Ceremony
This ceremony relates the story of the Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea, a true story of courageous World War II Christian and Jewish clergy who made the ultimate sacrifice so others could live. In 1943, four young Army chaplains joined 900 raw recruits who were headed for battle in Nazi-occupied Europe on the US AT Dorchester. During the voyage, the chaplains guided and reassured those on board, providing comfort to men suffering from seasickness and from fear of what lay ahead. At 1:00 am, February 3rd, a torpedo from a German submarine ripped through the hull of the Dorchester, and the ship began to sink into the freezing arctic waters. In a frantic scramble for lifeboats, the four Army chaplains directed many soldiers to safety. When the life vest supply ran out the chaplains removed their own and gave them to the soldiers. The chaplains went down with the ship eighteen minutes after it was hit off the coast of Greenland.
