from the Editors August 16, 1993 Issue

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"The night was frigid. The U.S. transport ship Dorchester, carrying 902 troops, had slowed to half speed because of ice floes. At 1 a.m., a torpedo struck and exploded midship. The ship started down rapidly.

"Then, in the panic on the deck of that doomed World War II vessel 50 years ago, came an episode that implanted the ideal of interfaith bonds in American memory.

"Four Army chaplains—two Protestants, a Jew and a Roman Catholic—after working to distribute life jackets, calm the frightened men and direct them to lifeboats and rafts, gave their own life belts to men without them....

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