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Show h- - ' u ! T f 1 1 4 V:: JOeL. J Awn, ' -t. - . THEN THEY JOINED HANDS. ..On May 28 the U.S. government will issue this commemorative 'Four Chaplains' stamp. This is the story behind it: The troopship S. S. Dorchester was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in February, 1943. On board were four chaplains of three faiths: Protestant ministers George L. Fox and Clark V. Poling, Father John P. Washington and Rabbi Alexander G. Goode. 'When the ship was hit each of the four gave his lifebelt to nearhy men without them. Then they joined hands and prayed to the one God they all served for the safety of the men struggling to leave the ship. The four chaplains died together. Statements of the survivors of the sinking include these words: This is the picture engraved on our minds and hearts as the S. S. Dorchester disappeared beneath the waves," |