Grandson of one of the four chaplains speaks about his namesake ahead of annual Prayer Breakfast

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — On Feb. 23, 1943, at 1 a.m. the S.S. Dorchester was struck by the Germans during World War II. The ship was transporting U.S. Troops from New York to Greenland. Four of the dead were chaplains of different faiths.

The four men, George Fox, a Methodist minister from Lewistown, Mifflin County; Clark Poling, a reformed church minister; John Washington, a Catholic priest; and Alexander Goode, a Jewish rabbi who left his pulpit at York's Temple Beth Israel, linked arms as the ship went down, saying prayers and singing hymns.

"I get goosebumps," he told FOX43."I'm honored to have a small connection to that. I do what I can to convey the message and bring it into today's context."

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