David Fox and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Four chaplains and nearly 700 other men died on the troopship Dorchester off the coast of Greenland in February 1943. It was the third largest American loss of life at sea in World War II. At a time when religious identity kept Jews, Catholics, and Protestants apart, these four chaplains of different faiths went down together praying with the soldiers who could not leave their ship.
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