And the Oh, At the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Constitution Avenue stands a small building that houses a memorial called

the Chapel of the Four Chaplin's Memorial. This Navy Yard is now a thriving

industrial complex that still houses some components of the Navy.

But few memories still exist to the shipyard that housed over 40,000 workers and gave us the battleships

New Jersey and the Wisconsin, which by the, is a big attraction in its adopted port of Norfolk, Virginia.

Few of the people at the Industrial Center today know that this memorial was a Navy chapel in World War II.

It was the chaplains of different faiths who tended

to the needs of the scared and dying soldiers on all the horrific fronts of war. Chaplains who gave hope

when there seemed to be none, and chaplains who gave hope when there seemed to be none and chaplains who

promised to deliver that last letter before pulling the lids down on the eyes of a

dead soldier. It was a brotherhood of men all serving one God and doing their best to understand how all this could be happening in God's world.

This is the story of the Four Chaplains, borrowed from the inspirational website W. Home of Heroes.com,

which we suggest you support

as they are an excellent place to find the often forgotten

stories of America's heroes.

Welcome to another episode from 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries.

This one from our Heroes series is titled The Four Chaplains and tells the story of the heroic

actions of four US Army chaplains who gave all they could including their lives to

get as many men safely off the ship as possible in the frigid waters of the

North Atlantic when the USA troop transport Dorchester was torpedoed 80 miles

south of Greenland on February 3rd,

1943.

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