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And we return to our American stories.

Up next, another story courtesy of the Great Folks at the Grateful Nation Project.

On February 3, 1943, one of the worst sea disasters in the history of the United States Navy

transpired far off the coast of Greenland as the USS Dorchester, a converted luxury ocean liner

filled with troops sank into the icy

waters of the North Atlantic. 674 men would die, the largest loss of troops in a convoy

during the entire war. But amidst the tragedy, there was courageous beauty.

Here to tell the story of the immortal chaplains is Craig Dumay.

Take it away, Craig.

A Methodist, a rabbi, a Dutch reformed minister, and a priest walk onto a ship.

That sounds like the first line of a joke you might hear in a bar.

Okay. That sounds like the first line of a joke you might hear in a bar. This is the story of the selfless bravery of four men of different faiths.

George Lansing Fox was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, in 1900, one of five children.

Eager to leave home, he quit school at age 17 and convinced army officials that he was 18.

As the United States entered the Great War, Fox trained as an ambulance driver and medical orderly,

then was sent to France and the war's

Western Front. Fox's bravery earned him the silver star medal and the French Quad de Guille for

rescuing a wounded soldier from the battlefield filled with poison gas, even though he wore no mask himself.

After the war, Fox was married and became an itinerant Methodist preacher.

With his service as a war veteran, Fox was appointed as the state of Vermont's American Legion

chaplain and historian. With a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941,

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