This Saturday, February, 5th, 2023, between 8:00 am and 10:30 am, we will be have our first Saturday of the month. Scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy will be served. $7 donation all you eat. Then at 2:00 pm. We will be conducting our annual Four Chaplain Ceremony. You are invited to have the wonderful opportunity to witness and learn while we commemorate the heroic actions of the four chaplains that sacrificed their lives so that four more lived could be spared during the attack and sinking of the SS Dorchester. After the ceremony there will be cake and refreshments.
A quick summary of the event:
On February 3, 1943, the bell on the troopship U.S.A.T. DORCHESTER rang twice and never sounded again.
The U.S.A.T. DORCHESTER was torpedoed by an enemy submarine and 672 young men paid the supreme sacrifice. Included in the 672 were Four Men of God...a Rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest, a Methodist minister, and a Dutch Reformed minister... All Army Chaplains.
These Four Chaplains gave their lifejackets to save four soldiers and, in so doing, gave up their only means of survival. They were last seen on the deck of the ship with their arms linked together and their heads bowed in prayer as they went to their watery graves in the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland. Each chaplain received the Purple Heart and Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
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