Yorktown To Host Four Chaplains Ceremony On Sunday

YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Yorktown veterans and Mildred Strang Middle School students will come together on Sunday, Feb. 2 to celebrate the Four Chaplains, according to a LoHud report.

Yorktown veterans and Mildred Strang Middle School students will come together on Sunday to celebrate the Four Chaplains.
Photo Credit: *Courtesy American Legion Post 1009*

by Nathan Bruttell

01/31/2014 4:00 a.m.

This annual ceremony honors the four Army chaplains who were on the USS Dorchester, a troop transport, in February 1943 when it sank in the Atlantic. The four - a rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest and two Protestant ministers - went down with the ship after giving up their life jackets to other soldiers when the supply ran out.

The ceremony is set to begin at 2 p.m., at the Yorktown American Legion Post 1009 Hall, 235 Veterans Road in Yorktown.

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