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SUMMARY:Four Chaplains’ Day Inter-Faith Service
DESCRIPTION:The American Legion Department of California’s Four Chaplains’ Day Inter-Faith Service will be held at Grace Community Church, 1620 Church Avenue in Sanger, on Friday, February 6, 2026, at 2:00 PM. American Legion members, family, friends, and the public are all invited to attend. RSVPs will be greatly appreciated by February 1, 2026, by calling The American Legion Department of California at (559) 875-8387 or emailing carolina@calegion.org ( mailto:carolina@calegion.org ).\nThis year will mark the 83rd anniversary of the heroic four chaplains who gave up their life jackets so that others might live and went to their deaths. Early on the morning of February 3, 1943, the U.S. Troop Transport Dorchester was steaming through the icy seas off Greenland. Most of the 900 troops aboard were asleep in their bunks. Suddenly, a torpedo smashed into the ship’s flank. Frantically pounding up the ladders, the troops milled in confusion on the decks.\nIn those moments of panic, the bravest men aboard were four U.S. Army Chaplains: 1st Lts. Clark V. Poling, Alexander D. Goode, John P. Washington, and George L. Fox.\nThe four chaplains led the men to boxes of life jackets and passed them out to the soldiers. When the boxes were empty, they slipped off their own precious life preservers and put them on four young G.I.’s. The U.S.A.T. Dorchester went down 25 minutes later in a rumble of steam. 673 men were lost, but the heroic chaplains had helped save 230. The last anyone saw of them, they were standing on the slanting deck with their arms linked in prayer to the one God they all served.\nThis beautiful and solemn religious service will begin at 2:00 PM, with Department Chaplain Kathy Cash serving as Chairman. The public is invited to attend. Please RSVP to (559) 875-8387 or email carolina@calegion.org ( mailto:Carolina@calegion.org ) on or before February 1, 2026. Refreshments will be served in the social hall immediately after the ceremony.\n
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LOCATION:1620 Church Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
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