The four chaplains weren rsquo t known as ldquo heroes rdquo But on a frigid February night in when their transport ship the SS Dorchester was torpedoed off the coast of Greenland during World War II the four gave their all to calm hundreds of panicked soldiers With the ship sinking and injured men jumping for overcrowded lifeboats the four chaplains calmed pandemonium by ldquo preaching courage rdquo a survivor said When life jackets ran out each took his off giving it to a frightened young man They had determined to go down with the ship so that others might [... more]