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B’nai B’rith Honors Three Chaplains in U.S. Armed Services

Three chaplains–Protestant, Catholic and Jew–were honored here last night by the Chaplain Alexander D. Goode Lodge B’nai B’rith for “concentrated service and idealism” to interfaith good will. An award of $500 and a citation was presented to each of them at a dinner in the Waldorf Astoria commemorating the heroism and devotion to duty of […]

February 5, 1952
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Three chaplains–Protestant, Catholic and Jew–were honored here last night by the Chaplain Alexander D. Goode Lodge B’nai B’rith for “concentrated service and idealism” to interfaith good will. An award of $500 and a citation was presented to each of them at a dinner in the Waldorf Astoria commemorating the heroism and devotion to duty of the four chaplains who sacrificed their lives on the troopship Dorchester when it was torpedoed in 1943.

The chaplains honored at the dinner were Maj. David M. Reardon, of the Army, a Protestant; Lt. Cmdr. Dennis R. Kerrigan, a Catholic, and Maj. Edward Ellenbogen, of the Air Force, a Jew. The awards were accepted for the chaplains by the chiefs of chaplains of the three services, Rear Adm. Stanton W. Salisbury; Maj. Gen Roy Parker, of the Army, and Maj. Gen. Charles L Carpenter, of the Air Force.

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